Anne’s cottage there’s the body-less head of a political prisoner kept alive by what appears to be members of a cult and then there’s the prospect of raising Merlin himself back to life. How different this is from the planet-hopping of Books 1 and 2! This story follows two main trails (with others interspersed): that of Mark, the university fellow who leaves his prestigious school to work for the mysterious company who’s buying that school’s property and that of his wife, Jane, the lonesome and forgotten housewife who has the most fantastic of dreams. It’s so different from his first two books in plot and setting that it almost feels like a different series entirely. I loved the fluffy Ewoks from 1983, and I love the 1940s British characters of Lewis’ final piece. Only pretentious snobs would call Book 2’s version of The Empire Strikes Back “the best in the series”, citing depth and tragedy as their reasons, but I’m not a pretentious snob. It was the true Return of the Jedi to Book 1’s A New Hope.

Lewis proved to be the most satisfying of the trilogy. What Lewis casts as a warning in the form of fantasy and science fiction is much closer today.” Francis Schaeffer in Back to Freedom and DignityĪs the final read in our 2019 Siblings’ Book Club, Book Three in The Space Trilogy by C.S. “I strongly urge Christians to read carefully this prophetic piece of science fiction.

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