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So perhaps Lewis is accusing Stapledon of devil-worship for imagining a world with an uncaring creator?

I would disagree that it obviously celebrates the concept or ignores the horror therein.

I think the problem I'm having is that for me, as a well-established secular person, the concept of "devil" is inherently bound up in Christian context, i.e. on the assumption that God exists and is good etc... . The concept does not easily apply outside of that context, to speculative fiction set in hypothetical worlds. However, I suppose that Lewis interprets everything in the Christian context, whether it is intended or not.