Out of the Silent Planet
160 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1938
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ISBN: 9780007157150
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 1 January 2005
Description
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...
