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Re: SF: Book recommendations

From John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.misc, alt.books.inklings, alt.books.cs-lewis
Subject Re: SF: Book recommendations
Date 2026-02-05 09:42 -0800
Organization A place where nothing fits quite right
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:12:04 +0200
Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

> It's the one I like least of Lewis's "space trilogy", but it has some
> interesting stuff on the banality of evil.

Yeah, that stuck with me even as an adolescent. It's become a common
point of reference in our household over the last decade, as we see one
example after another of how the villains we're facing on the home
front aren't the swaggering, operatic characters popular culture taught
us to expect, but just grotesque, petty creeps operating at scale...

> If you want to know more about that, see here:
> 
> <https://khanya.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/tales-from-dystopia-x-the-banality-of-evil/>

Thanks for sharing.

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Re: SF: Book recommendations Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-02-05 05:12 +0200
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