This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis’s classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and Earth. It includes an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume.
The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy, demonstrating the powerful imagination of C.S..Lewis. This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Out of the Silent Planet with an exclusive Foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based.
OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET
Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet’s treasures and offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there…
PERELANDRA
Having escaped from Mars, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus. When his old enemy also arrives and is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world…
Product details
Publisher : HarperCollins; 75th Anniversary edition (Nov. 5 2013)
Language : English
Hardcover : 728 pages
ISBN-10 : 0007528418
ISBN-13 : 978-0007528417
Item weight : 992 g
Dimensions : 15.9 x 5.8 x 22.7 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #50,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#166 in Fantasy Anthologies (Books)
#422 in Exploration Science Fiction
#498 in Magical Fantasy
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