(In the two earlier books Ransom travelled into the heavens, but in this book he stays home and heaven comes to him. Meanwhile Mark’s wife Jane ends up at the house of the ageless Ransom. Too late he realizes that the inner circle he has strived to enter, will not let him go. At first, Mark is impressed by the goal of engineering a better society, but eventually he realizes he has bought into a diabolical program of unimaginable horror. A young man by the name of Mark is recruited into the organization. Into this village comes a mysterious institution set on improving humanity.
The battleground is a village in England. What’s it about? It’s a story of righteousness versus evil, life versus death.
Lewis’s breath-taking insight into the human condition, the nightmares we make for ourselves, and our need for divine intervention is breath-taking. Like every other time I’ve read this book, it has left me with a deep impression. I have just finished reading That Hideous Strength, the final book in the trilogy. They are also ripping yarns about the nature of evil and God’s plan for dealing with it. As Lewis says, they are fairy-tales for grown ups. Unlike Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength were not written for children. Everyone knows CS Lewis wrote the Narnia Chronicles, but not so many people are familiar with his earlier Space Trilogy.
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