C. S Lewis
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In "That Hideous Strength", the lives of two young academics, Mark and Jane Studdock are upended when a research agency, the National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.), purchases land thought to be the burial place of the ancient wizard Merlin from Bracton College, where they work. While Mark strives to join the inner circle of N.I.C.E., Jane, seeks help for her troubling recurring dreams in a nearby town called St. Anne's. It is there...
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In "Out of the Silent Planet", the first book of C.S. Lewis' celebrated Space Trilogy, two men, Devine and Weston, capture a third, Ransom, and take him to the planet of Malacandra via a space craft. When Ransom learns that the men plan to sacrifice him to the strange planet's inhabitants, he escapes on foot. Lewis' descriptions of the otherworldly land of Malacandra are captivating, as well as his descriptions of Ransom's learning of the native language...