The first one, Out of the Silent Planet, tells how Ransom, a Cambridge don on holiday, is kidnapped by the physicist Weston and his partner Devine, a sleazy businessman, and taken to Mars, supposedly as a human sacrifice. His attitude seems to have originated due to one of his students who strongly believed in space travel and was a member of the British Interplanetary Society. Published between 19 the three books that make up the story of Arthur Ransom are not his best know works, but after nearly half a century they are still well worth reading. Lewis, best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, managed to bring it off, he even mixed in a bit of the Arthurian matter of Britain and a reference to his friend JRR Tolkein’s mythic fiction. It is also hard to reconcile orthodox Judeo-Christian monotheistic doctrine with the idea that the classic pagan gods like Venus and Mars were in some way angels of the Lord. “He was a man obsessed with the idea which is at this moment circulating all over our planet in obscure works of ‘scientifiction,’ in little Interplanetary Societies and Rocketry Clubs, and between the covers of monstrous magazines, ignored or mocked by the intellectuals, but ready, if ever the power is put into its hands, to open a new chapter of misery for the universe.”Ī story that begins with the hero committing an act of criminal trespass and ends with a multi-species festival of sexuality is not, at least superficially, a work that can be described as a Christian morality tale. Lewis and his Space Trilogy, then and now by Taylor Dinerman While not as well known as his Narnia books, Lewis’s “Space Trilogy” contained interesting messages about space exploration years before the Space Age began.Ĭ.S.
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