C.S. Lewis
The Conditioners / Abolition of Man (b)
Man's mastery of nature = nature's conquest of man; the Conditioners step outside the Tao and treat human nature as raw material. Operator-class lens on the centralized power structure; structural twin of the Second Foundation. Christian apologist — NOT occult.
Also in The Apex in Literature & Philosophy
Isaac AsimovPsychohistory / Foundation — the recursion (b)J.R.R. TolkienThe Machine / the One Ring (b)Frank HerbertThe Butlerian Jihad (b)Philip K. DickThe Black Iron Prison / VALIS (b+a)Rudolf SteinerAhriman / the machine-swarm (a)Martin HeideggerGestell / standing-reserve (b)Michel FoucaultBiopower / the Panopticon (b)Friedrich NietzscheThe Last Man (b)