David C. Downing: Out of the Silent Planet, Part 4

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The Inklings Variety Hour is pleased to welcome Dr. David C. Downing for our final episode discussing Out of the Silent Planet. David wrote the first serious scholarly book on C.S. Lewis' "Ransom Trilogy," Planets in Peril and he is the co-director, with his wife, Crystal, of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. Check out their fine podcast, if you haven't already. 

Among other things we discuss:

• How David became interested in C.S. Lewis and the genesis of Planets in Peril
• Why Lewis is like an EGOT-er
• Tolkien and Lewis, their influence on each other, and their different approaches to fantasy
• Lewis and Mysticism
• Into the Region of Awe, Looking for the King, and C.S. Lewis on Writing (And Writers)
• J.B.S. Haldane and Lewis
• Controversy as Muse
• Clear Writing
• Lewis' personal aesthetic experiences as basis for fiction

I hope you enjoy!  Thanks again to Dr. Downing for joining me.

On Thursday, join us again as I interview another heavy hitter, renowned Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger, as part of a continued series of interviews with authors publishing through Signum University Press. I will be talking with Verlyn about her new book of stories and poetry, A Waiter Made of Glass, which is now available wherever books are sold.