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That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
5.0
My favorite of the Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength is an exploration of the sinister influence behind the attempts to defeat death and ascend beyond the need for a physical body.
As the continuation of the trilogy, we eventually meet Ransom again, still nursing the wound on his heel, in his mission to prevent the oyarsa of Earth, whom we know as Satan, from producing evil in the earth. This time, however, he takes more of a backseat, even in the narration, as two new viewpoint characters, Mark and Jane Studdock are introduced.
Jane eventually meets Ransom and joins herself to the side of good, but Mark sides with the N.I.C.E. (National Institute of Coordinated Experiments), where the evil one's methods are clinical, 'rational,' and exceptionally polished. We can see shadows of transhumanism and modern social planning in the halls of the enemy N.I.C.E. Fleshliness, to them, is the great weakness of humanity and the enemy of social progress. It is only by negating/removing the necessity of the body that humanity can evolve. This impulse is revealed to be influenced by the same demonic sources that animate the disembodied head from which the N.I.C.E. takes its orders.
For a fictional display of how 'scientism,' unrestricted by philosophical and religious thinking, leads to horrors yet unthought of, this book gives some great examples.
As the continuation of the trilogy, we eventually meet Ransom again, still nursing the wound on his heel, in his mission to prevent the oyarsa of Earth, whom we know as Satan, from producing evil in the earth. This time, however, he takes more of a backseat, even in the narration, as two new viewpoint characters, Mark and Jane Studdock are introduced.
Jane eventually meets Ransom and joins herself to the side of good, but Mark sides with the N.I.C.E. (National Institute of Coordinated Experiments), where the evil one's methods are clinical, 'rational,' and exceptionally polished. We can see shadows of transhumanism and modern social planning in the halls of the enemy N.I.C.E. Fleshliness, to them, is the great weakness of humanity and the enemy of social progress. It is only by negating/removing the necessity of the body that humanity can evolve. This impulse is revealed to be influenced by the same demonic sources that animate the disembodied head from which the N.I.C.E. takes its orders.
For a fictional display of how 'scientism,' unrestricted by philosophical and religious thinking, leads to horrors yet unthought of, this book gives some great examples.