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Useful background to and critical studies of That Hideous Strength are provided in David C. Downing, Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (1992); and Sanford Schwartz, C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy (2009).

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Add new Web site: Academia - Battling That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis on Morality, State, and Civil Society in Britain During the Second World War. Apr 21, 2016
Article thoroughly revised. Apr 02, 2014
New bibliography added. Mar 06, 2014
Add new Web site: Harding University - English Department - That Hideous Strength. Sep 18, 2012
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