A review by quoththegirl
The Dark Tower and Other Stories by Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis

5.0

Sarah loaned me The Dark Tower and Other Stories by CS Lewis, and its brilliance helped considerably to efface the preceding ugliness of Joyce Carol Oates. I wish very, very desperately that Lewis had been able to finish The Dark Tower, because I dare say it would have been every bit as good as the Space Trilogy. He toys with the theory that memory is the direct perception of the past, which is a fascinating idea I hadn't encountered before. His short stories really are exquisite as well. He reminds me quite a lot of Asimov; somehow his tone seems very different in his short stories than in his novels. I'm not sure why that might be...but I love both styles.