Lewiss spectacular Space Trilogy, which also includes Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. Lewis, The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength 1 likes Like He had read of 'Space': at the back of his thinking for years had lurked the dismal fancy of the black, cold vacuity, the utter deadness, which was supposed to separate the worlds. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity.įirst published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a magnificent and suspenseful tour de force in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. Elwin Ransom is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken to the red planet of Malacandra (Mars) as a human sacrifice for the alien creatures that live there. While searching for a place to rest for the night, Dr. Lewiss Space Trilogy, of which Out of the Silent Planet is the first volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camuss The Plague and George Orwells 1984 as a timeless classic, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns.

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C.S. Lewiss Ransom Trilogy, better known as the Space Trilogy, is a much-neglected and yet. Ransom as he is abducted and taken by spaceship to Mars.

Lewis, the acclaimed author of The Chronicles of Narnia, comes the first book in the classic science fiction Space Trilogy following the resourceful Dr.

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