Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy #1)

C.S. Lewis


3.92 · 40 ratings · Published: 1938

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
In 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...

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