The Space Trilogy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: C. S. Lewis
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s and the 1940’s
- Setting: Earth, Mars, and Venus
- 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
Characters Discussed
Out of the Silent Planet, 1938
Elwin Ransom, the protagonist, a middle- aged scholar who is kidnapped while on a walking tour of the English countryside. His abductors take him aboard a spacecraft bound for Mars, where he is to be given to the Martian natives. Assuming he is to be sacrificed as part of an alien ritual, Ransom escapes from his captors once they reach the planet’s surface. Wandering the Martian landscape, he encounters the planet’s other intelligent life-forms—the hrossa, the sorns, and the pfifiltriggi—as well the...
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