Monday, May 5, 2025

Fairy Tale Spotlight: Ministering Angels [Short Story Review]

"Ministering Angels" is a science fiction short story written by C. S. Lewis. It was published in 1958. This doesn't happen very much, but I actually struggled to follow this one. I apologize that this even happened, so please take any issues I have with this one for a grain of salt since my opinion may not be a very good one. Either way, I am going to keep this one short.

The story here has to do with the colonization of Mars. It is a sort of slice of life of social life happening there on the initial colony. A lot of the drama comes from some women from Earth who show up and start trying to bring up some talk about how sexual morals may be a thing of the past. It is the main discussion happening in the story.

I did think it was cool to see a science fiction story written by a Christian and with the moral perspective included, but I really struggled to follow along with what was happening. I think that recommendations in this case should be omitted. You might read it and understand it more than I did. The way it was written just didn't absorb well. There was also a lot of dialect [British] which really hindered it as well. I'll still take the blame though. That's all I got for this one. Once again... apologies.

This blog was written on February 16, 2025.

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4 comments:

  1. Of course people assume morality is "obsolete." They would rather fancy themselves as "enlightened" for being irresponsible. It seems the author was imagining what would be happening soon in reality... and wanted to comment on it.

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  2. Having read a few of his philosophical works, I can understand the difficulties. Much of his work is very deep and can be hard to follow. You might do better with his space trilogy , which starts with Out of the Silent Planet.

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