Latest post in my blog on popular science:
The aliens are coming!
https://populscience.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-aliens-are-coming.html
Regards,
Manuel, I recall that when Lewis wrote Perelandra, he said that he was the first one to depict humans, not aliens, as the “bad guys” (my term) during contact with aliens. I do know that the aliens were the bad guys in Wells’s War of the Worlds. Was Lewis right in saying that in all previous fictional accounts of human-alien contacts, the aliens were the bad guys?
Dimitry
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Love will last forever.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8)
As the first two sci-fi novels by Lewis were published in 1938 and 1943, there is at least one previous novel where Earthmen are the evil guys and aliens the good guys:
Edmond Hamilton - A Conquest of Two Worlds (1932)
You can find it here:
http://famous-and-forgotten-fiction.com/writings/hamilton-stories/hamilton-a-conquest-of-two-worlds.html
Regards,