Children of the Sun
I was investigating this paragraph from the poem "The Turn of the Tide" by C.S. Lewis: "Salamanders in the Sun who brandish as they run Tails like the Americas in size, Were stunned by it and dazed; wondering, they gazed Up at Earth, misgiving in their eyes." Long story short, I'm pretty sure he got the idea from Olaf Stapledon's SF novel The Starmakers . Stapledon called them "salamanders" because he was thinking of the mythological salamander as a creature of fire . I collected some interesting related material below, including some nonfiction ideas about how you could get something that behaves like living things on the sun. The Turn of the Tide by C. S. Lewis Breathless was the air over Bethlehem; black and bare The fields; hard as granite were the clods; Hedges stiff with ice; the sedge, in the vice Of the ponds, like little iron rods. The deathly stillness spread from Bethlehem; it was shed Wider each moment on the land; Through rampart and ...
