num_pages: 382
description: The third and final novel in his classic trilogy, That Hideous Strength is set in an English university town where Dr Ransom has settled on return from his interplanetary travels. This quiet setting becomes the centre of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity, a plot to recreate mankind in the image of slave robots. Dr Ransom, the clairvoyant Jane and Druid Merlin, who ascends from his Arthurian tomb to aid them, are ranged together against the dark powers of evil...C.S. Lewis' classic novels of the interplanetary travels and adventures of Dr Ransom - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra (Voyage to Venus), and That Hideous Strength - are published with the full text and original titling intended by the author for the first time in paperback with these new Pan editions.An extravagant mingling of dream and realism...excellent and thrilling reading - Daily TelegraphBrilliant wit superlatively nonsensical excitement, challenging implications - New York Times
language: English
title: That Hideous Strength
titlecomplete: That Hideous Strength
characters: Merlin (Arthurian wizard), Elwin Ransom
genres: Christianity, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Christian Fiction, Religion, Classics, Christian, Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 38775
places: England
series: The Space Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
category: (2003), awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Pan Books