First published in , Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force. Author Bio C.S. Lewis was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford and Cambridge universities who wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime, including The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Mere Christianity.4/5(14). C S Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet is his first book in a trilogy. An academic linguist on holiday is kidnapped by a pair of dishonorable men who take him into outer space and on to what turns out to be Mars. There are several intelligent creatures on Mars, but also lots of gold/5(K). Out of the Silent Planet () is the first of C.S. Lewis’s science fiction Space Trilogy, succeeded by Perelandra () and That Hideous Strength (). There are clear parallels between the story of the rebellious Oyarsa and Satan’s fall (and Malacandra looks very much like a prelapsarian Earth). However, as with the Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet is not simply Bible-as-fantasy.
Overview. Published in , Out of the Silent Planet is a science fiction novel by author C. S. Lewis, best known for his bestselling fantasy children's series, The Chronicles of Narnia. It is the first book in Lewis's Space Trilogy, followed by Perelandra () and That Hideous Strength ().With Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis sought to write a narrative that differed from. Lewis wrote Out of the Silent Planet as a response to what he saw as a "dehumanization" of science fiction. Through a conversation with the author J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis decided that he would write a romantic "space travel" novel while adding in the aspects of morality and universal humanity that he felt science fiction had lost. Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel of the Cosmic Trilogy, considered to be C.S. Lewis' chief contribution to the science fiction genre. The trilogy concerns Dr. Ransom, a linguist, who, like Christ, was offered a ransom for mankind.
Out of the Silent Planet is a science fiction novel by the British author C. S. Lewis, first published in by John Lane, The Bodley Head. Five years later it was published in the U.S. (MacMillan, ). Two sequels were published in and , completing the so-called Space Trilogy. The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. C S Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet is his first book in a trilogy. An academic linguist on holiday is kidnapped by a pair of dishonorable men who take him into outer space and on to what turns out to be Mars. There are several intelligent creatures on Mars, but also lots of gold.
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