CSL Daily 2/3/17

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published in the February, 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)

CSL Daily 1/20/17

FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the January, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His …

CSL Daily 6/21

FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from Lewis was published in the June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original …

CSL Daily 2/3

  FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published this month in 1956 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) …

CSL Daily 1/20

FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the January, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/21

FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/3

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published this month in 1956 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 1/20

FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the January, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His …

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 21st

FACT OF THE DAY:

An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.”

The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What essay from The Weight of Glory was published this month that was a first a talk a few months earlier?
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The Shoddy Lands (CSLM-41)

Lewis is known for various fictional works, especially his stories of Narnia. But I bet you didn’t know he also wrote about “The Shoddy Lands.”

During Lewis’ lifetime only two of his short stories were published. One of them, “The Shoddy Lands” was in a issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It is also reprinted in Of Other Worlds.