The Space Trilogy

The Space Trilogy
C. S. Lewis

This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis’s classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and Earth. It includes an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume.The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy, demonstrating the powerful imagination of C.S..Lewis. This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Out of the Silent Planet with an exclusive Foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based.OUT OF THE SILENT PLANETDr 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 offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there…PERELANDRAHaving escaped from Mars, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus. When his old enemy also arrives and is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world…THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTHInvestigating the truth about her prophetic dreams, Jane Studdock encounters the fabled Dr Ransom, who is in great pain after his travels. A sinister society run by his old adversaries intends to harness the ancient powers of a resurrected Merlin in their ambition to subjugate the people of Earth…

THE SPACE TRILOGY

OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET

PERELANDRA

THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH

by C. S. Lewis

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Out of the Silent Planet first published 1938 by John Lowe (The Bodley Head) Ltd. Perelandra first published 1943 by John Lowe (The Bodley Head) Ltd. That Hideous Strength first published 1945 by John Lowe (The Bodley Head) Ltd.

Copyright © 1938, 1943, 1945 C. S. Lewis Pte Ltd.

Foreword & Afterword excerpted from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien copyright © 1981 The J.R.R. Tolkien Copyright Trust

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A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007528417

Ebook Edition © October 2013 ISBN: 9780007530335

Version: 2018-07-30

Contents

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Foreword

OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET

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