Out of the Silent Planet is like what, 100 years old? It has one of the most stunningly beautiful descriptions of space I've ever heard. Like uh, Christian Carl Sagan.
It's the story of some dude named Ransom being kidnapped to be sacrificed to aliens. It's a really interesting and mysterious adventure, and every single moment of it is interesting or exciting or both.
Perelandra
Ransom's back and he's blasting off again. Perelandra is a horror story. It's not -- I take it back, all three of these books are horror storieslol. But Perelandra is a bit uh, "slower" than Silent Planet. Ransom's on a mission, he's a bit less helpless. He's actually more than that because he beats the living crap out of a guy
"HIS HANDS TAUGHT HIM TERRIBLE THINGS."
A large part of the story is philisophical debate for the sake of a planet. And it's COOL.
Ransom's NOT back. At least not at first. That HideoKojima Strength follows a hapless wagie just trying to survive office politics. He's not heroic, he's not based and redpilled like Ransom. But maybe he could be???
A Multinational Corporation is buying up all the local farmland, and they're not doing it because they just love humanity so much. Wagie gets a job working in their Propaga-- I mean, uh, media department, and it's like that episode of Seinfeld where George is given an assignment and but he has no idea what it is. Except there's a lot more at stake. Like the town, maybe the planet, probably Wagie's marriage, and definitely his very soul.
Hideous Strength is the *strongest* book out of all of them. It features some genuine horror, a lot of WEIRD, interesting mystery, and IT'S SO RELATABLE IT'S PAINFUL. This book could have been written yesterday, instead of a century ago. It deserves to be talked about as much or MORE than 1984/Brave New World/WhateverThatOneICantRememberRN