The Space Trilogy · Book 3
That Hideous Strength
- Published
- 1 January 1945
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780007122028
- Type
- novel
About this book
That Hideous Strength closed the trilogy in 1945 as by far its longest volume at 448 pages, abandoning interplanetary travel for a satirical Earth-set novel about a sinister scientific institute, with Ransom reduced to a supporting role.
Its place in The Space Trilogy
That Hideous Strength is book 3 in the The Space Trilogy series. It follows Perelandra. See the full The Space Trilogy reading order.
Before he became Narnia's creator, C. S. Lewis spent the years around the Second World War writing a very different kind of fantasy: three novels that take Christian theology into outer space. Out of the Silent Planet (1938) begins the trilogy by kidnapping Cambridge philologist Elwin Ransom and hauling him to Mars aboard a stolen spacecraft, where he discovers a world of three sentient species living in harmony under a guardian angelic intelligence -- and learns that Earth alone, among the planets, has fallen…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007122028