Mark Studdock, a sociologist and a new Bracton faculty member who doesn’t feel like he quite fits in yet, is tempted to join NICE when they offer him a high-status job. NICE wants the talents of the progressive faculty on their side as they generate propaganda, but they also want to recruit some more ancient magic - they plan to dig up the body of Merlin, which they believe may be buried on the college’s property. The end-goal, though they only talk about this in the inner circle, is a future in which the working class is no longer needed to support the brains that run the world. To do this, they’ve had to exert their influence over some of the “progressive” faculty by getting them to buy into their subtle message of saving the human race through (but not obviously yet) sterilization, selective breeding, re-education, and biochemical conditioning. This evil is manifesting as a corporation called the National Institute of Coordinated Experimentation (N.I.C.E.) which is trying to purchase some wooded property owned by Bracton College at the University of Edgestow in England. In That Hideous Strength, Ransom is back on Earth and is preparing a group of people who can fight the forces of evil. These forces are at war and the fate of the universe is at stake. Elwin Ransom has been to both Mars and Venus and discovered that the planets are governed by heavenly beings and that Earth’s governor is a fallen angel. This story, which could be categorized as science fiction, dystopian fiction, Arthurian legend, and Christian allegory, is different enough from the previous books, Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, that you don’t need to have read them, but it may help to vaguely familiarize yourself with their plots. Now we kick her away.' That Hideous Strength is the final volume of C.S. Come visit us! 'Nature is the ladder we have climbed up by.

That hideous strength by cs lewis