The Magician's Twin hadn't been published when I made up the reading list for our History and Philosophy of Science course, but it would have saved me a lot of work. The Editor, John G. West, has done a fine job of pulling out excerpts from several authors' writing in a way that should be accessible to older high school students who have followed a classical course of study. The 13 essays plus biographical information could easily be fit into a semester's reading.
"[T]he new oligarchy...must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists, till in the end the politicians proper become merely the scientists' puppets." ~~ C. S. Lewis, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State quoted on p. 233 of The Magician's Twin.
From Essay # 10 C. S. Lewis and the Advent of the Posthuman (James A. Herrick):
"In an almost uncanny fashion Savulescu's comments reflect key elements of the educational, ethical, and scientific planning that Lewis was concerned to answer in The Abolition of Man as well as in his fictional work, That Hideous Strength. Proposals by Savulescu and others who share his concerns thus provide an ideal opportunity for assessing the prophetic nature of Lewis's concerns about applied technology in the context of an ascendant Western science operating outside the limits of widespread traditional values Lewis dubbed the Tao." ~~P. 239
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