The lines: “Against this huge backcloth he then proceeds to develop an ordinary love-story, spy-story, wreck-story, or crime-story. This seems to me tasteless. Whatever in a work of art is not used is doing harm. The faintly imagined, and sometimes strictly unimaginable, scene and properties, only blur the real theme and distract us from any interest it might have had,” from On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature show why Lewis does not classify Out of the Silent Planet as a religious allegory. It also shows that any possible religious ideology in Out of the Silent Planet fits into the science fiction story. Those lines bring about a new look on to why Lewis does not think of Out of the Silent Planet an allegory. Lewis feels that if the
