Get new reading guides by email
New guides and a few books from each. Occasional, never noisy.
Out of the Silent Planet - Paperback
$16.49
Skip to product information
Out of the Silent Planet
$16.49
Returns: if a book arrives damaged or isn't the one you ordered, email us within 7 days of delivery and we'll replace it or refund you, usually with nothing to send back. Refund policy
Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Thoughtful, Adventurous, Hopeful
- Kind of story
- Literary science fiction, Classic
- About
- Faith, Nature
- Pace
- Steady
- How dark
- 1 of 5. Light: spooky or sad at most
- Romance
- None to speak of
Shipping is $5.00 on orders under $25 and free at $25 and over. Every book ships by USPS from a US book warehouse, and you get a tracking number by email the day it ships.
Questions? Email hello@spineboundbooks.com. We reply within one business day.
An independent online bookstore in Richmond, Virginia. About us Reading guides
Featured in our reading guide: Books Like Project Hail Mary: What to Read Next
A philologist is kidnapped, put on a spacecraft, and delivered to Mars as a human sacrifice. The Martians are confused by this.
Shelf note: Gentle, strange, and a lovely way into Lewis beyond Narnia.
Elwin Ransom is walking in the English countryside when he's abducted by two men who intend to hand him over to whatever lives on Malacandra. Escaping into the landscape, he discovers a world with three intelligent species living in easy cooperation, none of whom want him dead, and none of whom can quite understand why humans behave the way they do.
Lewis wrote this as a direct argument against the assumption that colonizing other worlds is humanity's destiny, and against the men of his own era who wrote about space as territory. The Malacandrians have no war, no property disputes, and no concept of a species that would need them.
First in the Space Trilogy, written by the author of The Chronicles of Narnia and shaped by his friendship with Tolkien. The two agreed that one would write about space travel and the other about time travel.
Details
- Author: C. S. Lewis
- Series: The Space Trilogy, Book 1
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780743234900
Praise
-
Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions.
Los Angeles Times
-
This book has real splendor, compelling moments, and a flowing narrative.
The New York Times
-
If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.
The New Yorker
Reader reviews on Goodreads
Real reviews and star ratings from Goodreads readers, shown as Goodreads publishes them. We do not edit or select them.
See this book on Goodreads (opens in a new tab)