Everyone should read Lewis’s Space Trilogy,(Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength). Read them all, but “That Hideous Strength” couldn’t be more prophetic of the world today.
I agree with you 100%. The book is a masterpiece, just as a novel, and it is also coming true all around us.
Lewis knew nothing about politics - he did not bother with it - and studied little history. He liked the classics, literature and religion.
But his political insights were excellent, and his futuristic novel far more accurate than those of other - apparently better informed - writers.
I’m reading That Hideous Strength right now and so far it’s pretty depressing because it is a lot like right now. We hear a lot about 1984 and Brave New World but That Hideous Strength seems more realistic than either.
Ping
“Read them all, but “That Hideous Strength” couldn’t be more prophetic of the world today.”
Like it was pulled right from the headlines. The humanistic bureaucracy stuff is dead on.
Freegards
I love Lewis’s Space Trilogy, as well as all of the Narnia books. But my favorite Lewis works are The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, The Problem of Pain and (his masterpiece) Mere Christianity.