I wonder what Lewis himself would have thought of someone portraying him as a character in a story. But it has been done with many characters in history. That is the price one pays for being famous and for being respected by so many people. I don’t think that it is a bad thing, and Lewis might have enjoyed it. 🙂

@narnian78 Intriguing thought... I'd like to think that, whatever Lewis is doing now in Aslan's Country, he's probably delighting in "the Great Story" too much to be too concerned about how people back in this world are portraying him in fictional stories!   And at least he is still remembered and still widely respected, which is quite a tribute in itself.

OK NarniaWebbers, here's something a bit different when it comes to fictional portrayals of C.S. Lewis. He's now being reimagined as an amateur detective...

C.S. Lewis Investigates: The Mystery at Rake Hall by Maureen Paton

I have no idea how good, bad or indifferent it may be — just stumbled across it thanks to this article here that proposes yet another possible origin for a certain famous lamppost!

Was CS Lewis's Narnian lamp post based on North London scene?

I'm not a huge fan of mystery stories, but will keep an eye out for this one, just to see what it's like. It does make me wonder how the author will handle Lewis's faith. We could definitely do with more positive portrayals of Christians and Christianity in literature aimed at the general public! 

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OK NarniaWebbers, here's something a bit different when it comes to fictional portrayals of C.S. Lewis. He's now being reimagined as an amateur detective...

So interestingly, I posted that in the discord chat a couple of weeks ago, and the user JonathanParavel pointed out there has already been another, completely separate, book series which re-imagines CS Lewis as a fictional detective...

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20338395-c-s-lewis-and-the-body-in-the-basement

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/r/kel-richards/c-s-lewis-mysteries/

I was so struck by the notion that two different authors would have the same idea, particularly because CS Lewis wasn't a writer of Murder Mystery novels. Like, I would get it if you were writing a novel about a fictionalised version of Agatha Christie solving mysteries.

My only conclusion is that their train of thought went something like 

• Inspector Morse has an assistant called Lewis.
• Morse is set in Oxford
• CS Lewis lives in Oxford

Otherwise it's just utterly bizarre.

Anyway, in terms of other portrayls of CS Lewis in fiction, I found the "Here There Be Dragons" young adventure novels to be kind of pointless, since other than the main character having the name "Jack" there was nothing to really tie him to Lewis.

In terms of Freud's Last Session, I found the stage play to be quite captivating, but the movie adaptation felt like it lost something in translation, and the editing felt choppy and rushed.

@icarus Gosh, talk about an odd coincidence!! And perhaps even more oddly, Kel Richards (author of the other C.S. Lewis mystery series) is Australian...   (I haven't read either this book or anything else by him, so I'm really not qualified to comment further.)