This is the final book of C. S. Lewis’ acclaimed Ransom Trilogy, which include Out of the Silent Globe and Perelandra. A classic work of fantasy as very much for the sweetness of its storytelling for its insights into the individual condition, the trilogy levels an epic fight between pushes of light and darkness across a canvas of other worlds.

FOR THE REASON THAT Hideous Strength, the brave philologist Dr. Ransom (modeled after Lewis’ friend J. R. R. Tolkien) finds himself in an environment of excellent alien beings and technological experiments work amok. There’s a rumor that this powerful wizard Merlin has came back to the globe of the living, and a sinister technocratic organization plans to use his power within their plot to “recondition” culture. Ransom’s combat for moral intelligence in a brave new universe dominated by science is a search filled up with intrigue and suspense.