In his adventures in the often strangely beautiful, sometimes dangerous, and sometimes surprisingly familiar Malacandra and its inhabitants, Ransom uncovers information about the larger universe and Earth's place that suggest he has as much to discover about his home planet as he does about the alien Malacandra. The first book in the trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, has enormous similarities with a book that Lewis and Tolkien were discussing on their walk together: H.G. Ransom discovers that the inhabitants of Malacandra are not what his kidnappers believed them to be. Ransom escapes into the strange Malacandran wilderness pursued by his kidnappers and abandoning his hopes of returning to Earth. Drugged, kidnapped, and wisked away in the scientists rocket to the planet Malacandra where he is to serve as a human sacrifice, Dr. Ransom stumbles upon the plot of a megalomaniacal scientist and his collaborator, who just happens to be an old schoolmate of Ransom's. Seeking out a place to stay the night, he ends up at the estate of a colleague who is away in London.
Elwin Ransom, a philologist who likes to explore the English countryside on foot. Literary Period: Modern Genre: Science Fiction, Speculative Philosophy Setting: England, Earth Malacandra (Mars). The first book in Lewis's Space Trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet tells the story of Dr. Other Books Related to Out of the Silent Planet Full Title: Out of the Silent Planet Where Written: Oxford, England When Published: 1938, by John Bane, The Bodley Head.
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