Out of the Silent Planet

Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis

The first novel in C.S. Lewis’s classic sci-fi trilogy which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who is kidnapped and transported to MarsIn the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the 'silent planet' – Earth – whose tragic story is known throughout the universe…

C. S. Lewis

OUT OF THE

SILENT PLANET

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First published in Great Britain in 1938 by John Lane (The Bodley Head) Ltd.

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TO MY BROTHER

W.H.L.

A lifelong critic of the

space-and-time story

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Perelandra Sample Chapter