New Memory
The Wood between Worlds
SCOTT BENZEL
SEP 27, 2024
Caption: still from The Mandela Effect (2019)
Caption: The Wood between Worlds from C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew
New Memory: The Wood between Worlds originated with Aaron F…1980s and 1990s, where writers use it as a way to characterize subgenres of a high degree of specificity. Even earlier, a French article about historical fiction from 1984 distinguishes “microgenre” and “macrogenre”: a microgenre is a more …
Clive Staples Lewis
writer · 3 mentions across 2 readings
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Lewis appears primarily as a source for speculative worldbuilding in the course's discussion of constructed realities and collective memory; his fictional concept of the Wood between Worlds is invoked by Scott Benzel to frame how shared false memories (the Mandela Effect) function as contemporary mythopoetic spaces. His work enables thinking about how speculative fiction prefigures AI-mediated reimagining of narrative and consensus reality—essentially treating Lewis as a precursor to algorithmic world-building rather than for his theological arguments.
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