Who should read the Space Trilogy by C.S. Out of the Silent Planet is four bucks on Kindle.Not everyone is familiar with this series, so WHO should read the Space Trilogy by C.S. But I’d have no problem handing this one off to a twelve-year-old fan of Jules Verne. But the ideology behind the plot is challenging. the shape of an island is compare to a breast). What about kids reading this adult book? As is the case with many classics, the story is perfectly fine for kids other than a few mild profanities and an occasional mild sexual reference (ie. If you’re a diehard sci-fi fan, maybe you’ll benefit from this review from a sci-fi lover who hated Narnia. (“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” “It would be a strange but not an inconceivable world heroism and poetry at the bottom, cold scientific intellect above it, and overtopping all, some dark superstition which scientific intellect, helpless against the revenge of the emotional depths it had ignored, had neither will nor power to remove.”) I love children’s lit over sci-fi. Lewis has plenty of deep and wonderful and beautiful moments. And Lewis’s theology, which I agree with, that is so unobtrusive and beautifully rendered in Narnia was a little more abstract and obvious in this one.ĭon’t get me wrong. The characters weren’t as loveable, and the plot not as compelling. 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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