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by maskedoffender 1993 days ago
He was inspired by C. S. Lewis' that hideous strength.
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lukifer 1993 days ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard that, do we know that definitively? (THS was the only one of the Space Trilogy I never read, I should correct that.)
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zabzonk 1993 days ago
Orwell reviewed That Hideous Strength and said it had some good points. But it's definitely the weakest in the trilogy, and definitely did not influence 1984 in any obvious way. Still worth reading, though.
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maskedoffender 1992 days ago
It's a very hard read. It took me several times to get into it.
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sideshowb 1993 days ago
Having read both I can't speak for where Orwell drew inspiration, but I never noticed any similarities
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