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That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)

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Jul 25, 2007 Emilia P rated it it was amazing

Shelves: real-books, churrrch

That Hideous Strength is the final book in the C.S. Lewis's Ransom trilogy. The first two books find Ransom on Mars and then Venus, exploring their flora and fauna,meeting their inhabitants and speaking with their eldils, which are somewhere between the planets spiritual essence and its guardian angel..while we discover how (the Christian) God works on other planets.

This third book finds Ransom back on earth, preparing for an interplanetary response to the threat of apocalypse, which is about to ...more

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Jan 04, 2008 Skylar Burris rated it liked it

Shelves: speculative-fiction

This is the last and perhaps the best novel in Lewis's space trilogy, and it is particularly interesting because it describes so creatively and profoundly the modern tendency to deify science at the expense of reducing the dignity of human life and the importance of the individual. The novel expresses so many dangerous modern tendencies so well, that it almost seems prophetic. On the downside, I feel that Ransom changes too much in this novel, becoming an almost inhuman Christ figure. Furthermor ...more

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Feb 08, 2008 Elizabeth rated it it was amazing

The last book of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy and one of his best commentaries on modernism and secular humanism. In the main character, Mark Studdock, we see our own struggle with our worst impulses to fear man instead of God, to confuse truth with attractive falsehood, and to rationalize evil.

The story is a vindication of imagination and a rejection of pure scientism. ...more

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