Reading this feels like reading classic science fiction, and really, it doesn't get much more classic. As he explores Malacandra and meets the aliens who call it home, he begins to understand them, and himself, in an entirely new way. On landing, Ransom manages to escape and there his real adventure begins. They plan to turn him over to the creatures of Malacandra as a form of sacrifice, hoping it will allow them to eventually loot the planet and return to Earth as wealthy men. Ransom is not a man of action and adventure, but an academic, and he is ill-prepared to deal with his captors. *Out of the Silent Planet, *the first book in the trilogy, tells the tale of a man kidnapped, taken aboard a spaceship, and transported to Malacandra or, as we know it, Mars.ĭr. Lewis with *The Chronicles of Narnia *but his body of work encompases far more, including a science fiction trilogy that is available for the first time in ebook format.
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