Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Out of the Silent Planet is the first volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C.S. First published in 1943, this classic interplanetary fantasy continues to delight readers around the world. He escapes and goes on the run, jeopardizing both his chances of ever returning to Earth and his very life. Ransom is kidnapped and spirited by spaceship to the mysterious red planet of Malandra. Lewis's legendary science fiction trilogy, Dr.
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