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Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy)

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'Out Of The Silent Planet' (1938) by C.S. Lewis ***** At the age of 41 I finally got round to buying C.S. Lewis's renowned sci-fi trilogy. Had read this first volume in school when I remember enjoying its imaginative description of a completely alien world but being disappointed at the lack of death and mayhem I had come to expect from pulp genre material. Now of course I can appreciate this as...more
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Lewis's account of a philologist kidnapped by a pair of scientists (one a warped idealist and the other motivated strictly by greed) is a wonderful work of fiction which touches on topics such as education, philosophy and religion. Its basis in Christian belief will be clear to the educated reader, though the unfamiliar names used to describe it may make the book more palatable to those who like...more
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What can I say? I love Lewis, but this is not my favorite of his, by any means. I have heard Perelandra (
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Unbelief, dressed up in the rags of so-called "science," is an impotent nothing compared with the power of the Created order. "Out of the Silent Planet" First in, "The Space Trilogy" is yet another parable about the nightmare of modernity for which Lewis is well-known. With Scientific pride, Dr. Ransom's kidnappers take him to be sacrificed or fed to,...more
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Out of the Silent Planet is the first book in C.S. Lewis' space trilogy (followed by Perelandra & That Hideous Strength). The story is exciting in its account of the adventures of Dr. Ransom on a strange planet, but this is far more than a simple science fiction or adventure novel. It explores human nature on a planet that is "enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its...more
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  • ISBN-10: 0025707906
  • ISBN-13: 9780025707900
  • ISBN-10: 0786118148
  • ISBN-13: 9780786118144
  • ISBN-10: 0786193670
  • ISBN-13: 9780786193677
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