Out of the Silent Planet | Literary Precedents
The debt to Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) is apparent in several details of the novel: Ransom is a philologist, and Gulliver states he "had a great Facility by the Strength of my Memory . . . [for] learning . . . Language"; each comes to the lands unwillingly; each describes the beings with whom he comes into contact with great and prosaic detail; each uses analogy to explain the unfamiliar; each is commenting on his own time and place by describing places which are ultimately fantastic.
H. G. Wells is another literary influence on the novel. The vagueness of the...
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