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No offense!

It was definitely prophetic, but the Merlin stuff was too much for me. Mixing religion and sci-fi is enough for me; when you want to throw magic and Arthurian mythology onto it, it breaks this camel's back.

The extrapolation of the move from atheism to humanism, started with Westin in Perelandra is the best part of Hideous though. That scientist (forget his name) is a great bad guy, and very insightful.

I would like to see Silent in theaters, but IMHO you couldn't do justice to Perelandra's beauty on screen, even with all of the effects in the world. It would be like attempting to computer-animate poetry.

I would like to see Silent in theaters, but IMHO you couldn't do justice to Perelandra's beauty on screen, even with all of the effects in the world. It would be like attempting to computer-animate poetry.

Well, have to agree with you there. The best parts of most good books are something you can never get onto the screen because they're things you can't see at all.

Did you know that there was an opera adaptation of Perelandra? It was composed by Donald Swann (the guy who set some of Tolkien's poetry to music) back in the 1960's, but I don't know if it's ever been given a stage performance. I don't think it's ever even been recorded. And, who knows--it might be awful.