In his escape he encounters another intelligent race, the hrossa and while living among them he comes to realise that Malacandra is an unfallen, utopian world whose inhabitants live together, in unselfish harmony.

Ransom, however, escapes from them when they are unexpectedly attacked by a shark-like marine creature called a hnakra. Weston and Devine suspect that no good will come to the man who goes to Oyarsa and this is why the kidnapping of Ransom has occurred. Malacandra, it turns out, has intelligent inhabitants called sorns and these have asked for a human being to be brought to their leader, Oyarsa, before Weston and Devine can be permitted to continue their activities – acquiring gold in Devine's case, and, in Weston's, preparations for some grand but obscure design involving the extermination of Malacandra's current inhabitants to make room eventually for man. Ransom is bundled into a spaceship that Weston has constructed, which takes off for 'Malacandra' or Mars. It is the story of how a philologist named Ransom is kidnapped during a walking holiday, by a physicist, Weston, and his collaborator, Devine. Lewis that also includes Voyage to Venus and That Hideous Strength. Out of the Silent Planet is the first of a science fiction trilogy by C.S. Each part can be read independently, so dip in for a fascinating analysis of your favourite book and then re-read the book with renewed insight - or be inspired to go away and read some of these for the first time. The nine parts provide an illuminating study of different ways to include God and the 'supernatural' in a novel. Chronicles of Heaven Unshackled examines the presence (and absence) of God in the English novel, with particular reference to Tolkien and C.S.

Out of the silent planet by cs lewis