Lewis will be among the angels.Ībout the Author C.S. The New Yorker If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. The New York Times This book has real splendor, compelling moments, and a flowing narrative. Los Angeles Times Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions. Lewis's spectacular Space Trilogy, which also includes Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. First 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. 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. 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. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Out of the Silent Planet is the first volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 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. 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. Ransom, who is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra.īook Synopsis From C.S. About the Book 'Out of the Silent Planet' begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr.

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