In the third book of the Ransom trilogy, the powers of evil prepare and mount an exceedingly bold and sophisticated attack upon England, as a preliminary to a takeover of the Earth. Merlin, the magician of Arthur’s court, who has been in a state of suspended animation for hundreds of years, awakens in circumstances that overthrow the whole direction of events. Ransom is the captain of one of the strangest armies in all history – including an assortment of ordinary Englishmen, several mice, and a brown bear – standing against the marshaled power of science and education in the service of insane angels. Enemy headquarters is the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments, or N.I.C.E. Quite a story. And don’t let the fiction fool you. What is presented here is a real look at the kind of thing that our human race is really faced with in the modern era.

C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength