The Space Trilogy · Book 1
Out of the Silent Planet
- Published
- 1 January 1938
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN-13
- 9780006281658
- Type
- novel
About this book
Out of the Silent Planet opened the trilogy in 1938 at just 176 pages -- its shortest volume by a wide margin -- kidnapping philologist Elwin Ransom to Mars, where he learns Earth alone has been quarantined as the 'silent planet.'
Its place in The Space Trilogy
Out of the Silent Planet is book 1 in the The Space Trilogy series. It is followed by Perelandra. See the full The Space Trilogy reading order.
Before he became Narnia's creator, C. S. Lewis spent the years around the Second World War writing a very different kind of fantasy: three novels that take Christian theology into outer space. Out of the Silent Planet (1938) begins the trilogy by kidnapping Cambridge philologist Elwin Ransom and hauling him to Mars aboard a stolen spacecraft, where he discovers a world of three sentient species living in harmony under a guardian angelic intelligence -- and learns that Earth alone, among the planets, has fallen…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006281658