![]() ![]() ![]() I finally took the leap these last two weeks. As such, I was not eager to jump into it and instead focused on other books for the past five months. It’s the most tangential, awkward, and least tonally consistent of the three novels. That Hideous Strength is widely regarded as the black sheep of Lewis’s trilogy. It’s taken me a while to get to the third book in The Space Trilogy, and anyone familiar with it would probably tell you why. Positive Content: Themes of humanity, human nature, corruption, and salvation. Other Negative Themes: Some dark moments involving horror, death, possession, and murder. Sexual Content: No explicit sexual content depicted. However, there are numerous grotesque moments of violent imagery: a living decapitated head, numerous people dying in stampedes and earthquakes, and other moments of death. ![]() Christian themes and reflections on the nature of human life. Spiritual Content: Significant and overt discussion of theology. With this final chapter, we return to Earth and finally see what the Bent One’s intentions over our species have been from the story’s start. Lewis’s The Space Trilogy! For this reviewer, this has been the first reading of these three classic books, and the experience has been a revelation! Lewis brings his adoration of the divine and fear of post-modernist corruption to life in a haunting space opera set against the birth and death of entire worlds. ![]()
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