The cosmic trilogy cs lewis5/19/2023 But the story did not resonate with me like Narnia. It’s a pretty huge name in the sci-fi crowd. Out of the Silent Planet has scads of diehard followers. While Malacandra was really cool, and the races unique, distinct, and interesting, I have found that I don’t absorb worlds that are vastly different than Earth (Thulcandra) very well, which takes me out of the running for many sci-fi books. I’ll let you find out if he ever makes it home or if he chooses to stay on the peaceful Malacandra. Slowly, he comes to realize that Earth is the only planet in the solar system that suffers from selfishness, greed, hatred, and a lust for power. He learns their language and discovers there are three intelligent species on Malacandra, each living in harmony with each other and beneath the deity-like Oyarsa. Convinced he is about to be sacrificed to aliens, he flees his captors and falls in with another alien race, and intelligent animal-like species. Eventually, he finds out he is bound for is Mars, or Malacandra to the locals. In this space travel book, Ransom, “a philologist and fellow of a Cambridge college” (so a figure rather like Lewis himself), is kidnapped and wakes to find himself aboard a spacecraft. But I found I didn’t care for this one as much as the work I’ve read by either of those authors. Wells and Jules Verne, who wrote a few decades earlier than Lewis. Lewis’s Narnia series, I recently purchased the first in his “adult” sci-fi trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet.
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