Indeed, as Michael Ward has argued, just as Lewis sought out literary “weather” as a reader, Lewis-the-writer borrowed from medieval myth and science to create a different planetary “atmosphere” for each of the books in his Narnian series: one breathes the atmosphere of Jupiter in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Saturn provides the weather for The Last Battle; Venus the landscape for The Magician’s Nephew; and so on.
