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OotSP is Man v. Nature
Perelandra is Man v. (Man v. Nature)
THS is Man v. Man
The whole series is obviously theist, but the allegorical “what would you do if you were an observer in Genesis?” in 2 was actually quite a powerful mirror to understand our own behaviors imo — Ransom isn’t the exclusive foil in that one, the Queen is meant to foster self-reflection just as much, and to question who’s guiding your development and why.
THS is literally the work Orwell copied for 1984. He wrote a book review on THS two years before he started writing it. I don’t understand how anyone can read that book after witnessing the extragovernmental powers granted to “science” over the Covid Years and miss the point. I took a lot more from Studdock’s personal journey as a reflection on my own follies in chasing after “importance” and the dangers that seduce us along the path, but even if the reader can’t relate to him personally, the N.I.C.E. is practically a blueprint for everything we’ve witnessed over the past 70 years. Hell, The Saracen’s Head was the most prescient prediction of the current state of the internet that’s ever been written. Pic extraordinarily related.