Post by waldenwriter on Jan 5, 2010 17:41:42 GMT -5
Similar to mongoose, my first thought when seeing this post's title was the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis. In the second book of that series, Venus is essentially a new Eden. The Bent One (the eldil of our world, which I read to be Satan) inhabits Professor Weston's body to try to tempt the Green Lady (the Eve of this story) to disobey Maledil (God)'s command not to spend the night on the Fixed Land. The protagonist, Ransom, is sent to combat the Bent One's efforts. In the end, he succeeds not only in physically killing the "Unman" (as the possessed corpse of Weston is called) but also in saving Venus from another Fall. The Green Lady and her King "step up the step at which your parents fell" (my favorite quote from the book) and take their rightful places as Maledil's regents over the planet.
The Mars/Malacandra of Out of the Silent Planet is also implied to be in a state of innocence, but is also said to be an older planet than Venus/Perelandra is.
On the other hand, the inhabitants of these more pious planets find our planet to be especially blessed by Maledil because, as the Green Lady says, Maledil came to Earth as a man personally to save it, something he has never done for the other planets.
While none of what I have written is THAT epic, I do have a sort of similar element in my current novel's "storyworld" (to borrow a term from Randy Ingermanson). There is a community of elves in the city of Eirian on Phi Andromedae, one of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy (and an actual star - I use real stars as my sci-fi worlds for the most part, rather than making up new ones), who were witnessed to by missionaries and are now believers. I haven't worked out the logistics of that yet - since it is really a very minor element in my current novel - but I thought it sounded interesting when I first thought of it a while back, so I've just gone with it.
The Mars/Malacandra of Out of the Silent Planet is also implied to be in a state of innocence, but is also said to be an older planet than Venus/Perelandra is.
On the other hand, the inhabitants of these more pious planets find our planet to be especially blessed by Maledil because, as the Green Lady says, Maledil came to Earth as a man personally to save it, something he has never done for the other planets.
While none of what I have written is THAT epic, I do have a sort of similar element in my current novel's "storyworld" (to borrow a term from Randy Ingermanson). There is a community of elves in the city of Eirian on Phi Andromedae, one of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy (and an actual star - I use real stars as my sci-fi worlds for the most part, rather than making up new ones), who were witnessed to by missionaries and are now believers. I haven't worked out the logistics of that yet - since it is really a very minor element in my current novel - but I thought it sounded interesting when I first thought of it a while back, so I've just gone with it.