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Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength
Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength Author:C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis's classic space trilogy was written immediately before and during World War II as an impassioned response to a civilization in jeopardy. All three volumes focus On the adventures of an unlikely hero: Dr. Elfin Ransom, a mild-mannered philologist modeled after Lewis's friend and colleague J. R. R. Tolkien. In Out of the Silent Planet,... more » Lewis takes the reader in a hazardous journey to the lush and fanciful Malacandra (known to us as Mars). Kidnapped by two space-hopping colleagues, Ransom must confront the "bent" ones: evil beings who would ransack the world's resources for their own foul ends. In Perelandra, when those same enemies wage war on the eponymous planet- which is also known as Venus- Ransom joins his oils Malacandran compatriots in a fight to ensure that the inhabitants of Perelandra remain spiritually pure as their Edenic surroundings. And That Hideous Strength cOmbines classic elements of goggle and dystopian tales: underground passages, fascist conspirators, bizarre scientific experiments, and a psychic who sees the future in nightmarish dreams. Here Ransom must battle his old interplanetary foes in order to save his home planet: Earth. In the remarkable novels of this exclusive Quality Paperback Book Club edition, Lewis has crafted what The New Torker has called an "elaborate satiric picture of the war between morality and devilry"« less