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Out of the Silent Planet

Name: Out of the Silent Planet
Rating: 3.93 (105981 reviews)
Author: C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis January 1, 1938

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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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Out of the Silent Planet

More in The Space Trilogy Series

Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength

Perelandra

That Hideous Strength

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Dream Thief

The Search for Fierra

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Ender’s Game

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Way Station

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