CS Lewis had an unpublished, partially completed adult sci-fi novel titled "
Dark Tower". Fellows at a major English university rig up a visual window, without sound, into a parallel dimension in which there is a highly developed science, however, on a completely different track than modern, conventional western science. The fellows watch as a young man and young woman present their spines to be stung by a bestial ruler with an implanted sting in his forehead, the Stinging Man.