The Space Trilogy (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: C. S. Lewis
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Science fiction/fantasy
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s and the 1940’s
- Setting: England, Mars, and Venus
- Principal Characters: Ransom, Dick Devine, Dr. Weston, Mark Studdock, Jane Studdock, The Green Lady, Lord Feverstone
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Romance, medieval
- Subjects: Language or languages, Twentieth century, Extraterrestrial life, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, 1940’s, 1930’s, England or English people, War, Christianity, Good and evil, Faith, Kidnapping, Adventure, Planets, Devils or demons, Earth, Mars, Venus
- Locales: Earth, Mars, Venus
The Novels
The first novel in Lewis’ series of “interplanetary romances,” Out of the Silent Planet, introduces Ransom, an English philologist who finds himself kidnaped and forcibly taken to the planet Malacandra, or Mars, by the evil physicist, Dr. Weston, and Dick Devine, a rich eccentric who had attended school with Ransom. During the voyage to Malacandra, Ransom overhears that they intend to deliver him to the sorns—who, he assumes, are like the horrible monsters in H. G. Wells’s science-fiction tales.
When a sea monster attacks the trio’s...
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