C. S. 劉易斯1898年2月生於北愛爾蘭首府貝爾法斯特的一個清教徒傢庭，律師之傢，從小就喜歡躲在小閣樓上耽讀、幻想。童年時代生活平靜安逸，但九歲時母親不幸去世，隨後他就被送往英格蘭一所嚴格的寄宿學校，從此逐漸遠離瞭父親，這一經曆直接影響瞭他筆下魔法世界的誕生。他二十六歲登上牛 津大學教席，人稱“最偉大的牛津人”，是二十世紀最具領導地位的作傢兼思想傢，被譽為西方奇幻文學之父，以《納尼亞王國傳奇》聞名於世。

The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra, That Hideous Strength" concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra" are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.