Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy sets out to demystify Lewis’s epic, offering up a wide-ranging exploration of the trilogy’s complex inner workings. To this day, I don’t remember many of the details of Frank Herbert’s Dune or Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel, but so many moments of the Space Trilogy-Ransom’s first encounter with the Yeti-like sorns on Mars, his battle with a demonically possessed “Un-man” in alien caverns, the bloody rampage of wild beasts that caps off That Hideous Strength-are etched deep into my imagination.įor those readers longing to go “further up and further in,” Christiana Hale’s new book Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C.S. Though I certainly didn’t have the literary or metaphysical background to pick up everything Lewis was doing, I found the imagery compelling and the themes resonant.
Nevertheless, when I first read the trilogy as a ten- or eleven-year old, I was captivated.
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