Out of the silent planet
(2003, original release: 1938)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
SF/LEWIS,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2003
©1938
©1938
EDITION
First Scribner trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION
158 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0684833646, 9780684833644, 0743234901 (pbk.), 9780743234900 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"First in the celebrated spacer trilogy, followed by 'Perelandra' and 'That hideous strength'." -- Front cover
Dr. Ransom, a noted philologist, is kidnapped and flown by spaceship to Malacandra (Mars) where he flees his human captors and establishes communication with the planet's extraordinary inhabitants. What he learns galvanizes his attempt to return to Earth with a message of great urgency
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