C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy

C.S. Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength - was completed over sixty years ago and has remained in print ever since. In this groundbreaking study, Sanford Schwartz offers a new reading that challenges the conventional view of these novels as portraying a clear-cut struggle between a pre-modern cosmology and the modern scientific paradigm that supplanted it.

Schwartz situates Lewis's work in the context of modern intellectual, cult...