false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171472742m/100933.jpg 100933 24 Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which <I>That Hideous Strength</I> is the third volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's <I>The Plague</I> and George Orwell's <I>1984</I> as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C. S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. Appropriately, Lewis modeled Dr. Ransom on his dear friend J. R. R. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia as children unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults; it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time.<P>In <I>That Hideous Strength,</I> the final installment of the Space Trilogy, the dark forces that have been repulsed in <I>Out of the Silent Planet</I> and <I>Perelandra</I> are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for the force that can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization that is gaining force throughout England, N.I.C.E. (the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments), secretly controlled by humanity's mortal enemies, plans to use Merlin in their plot to "recondition" society. Dr. Ransom forms a countervailing group, Logres, in opposition, and the two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.<P> Also published as "The Tortured Planet" (1958). 964487 book 1946 That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3) total:3668|5:1130|4:1168|3:997|2:302|1:71| 3668 13988 5065 213 5 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 19:03:22 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 09:06:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sat Mar 10 18:23:34 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 10 18:34:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu May 17 16:41:31 -0700 2007 Mon May 21 22:30:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 20 10:02:07 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 12:04:51 -0700 2008
I guess these books fall into the “Science Fiction” category, since they involve interplanetary travel. But it’s a misnomer to call it the Space Trilogy - the books are based on the idea that Space - what we think of as a cold vacuum - ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Mar 19 18:07:48 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 18 18:51:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 08:15:37 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 21:44:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Aug 29 23:46:11 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 23:47:12 -0700 2007
this is the last book in lewis's space trilogy - although this one never goes into space. the interstellar supernatural spiritual battle between good and evil visits earth itself. dr ransom again features as the hero, although...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 15 20:59:10 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 11:28:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Jul 18 14:47:32 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 19:08:12 -0700 2007
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That Hideous Strength deals with a Britain on the verge of dystopia. An...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 14 04:05:24 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 04:05:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 08:45:40 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 22:09:48 -0700 2009 Space Triology (which has, as I’ve noted in my reviews of the previous books in the Trilogy, less to do with Space, and more to do with Christian Theology); but while the first book took us to Malacandra (Mars), and the second book took us to Pereland...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 24 11:17:21 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 11:23:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 22:38:06 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 22:42:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 02 14:34:09 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 14:49:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 08:37:11 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 08:36:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=100933