Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel from the Cosmic Trilogy, considered to be C.S. Lewis’s chief contribution to the science fiction genre. The trilogy concerns Dr. Ransom, a linguist, who, like Christ, was offered a ransom for mankind. The first two novels are planetary romances with elements of medieval mythology. Each planet is seen as having a tutelary spirit; those of the other planets are both good and accessible, while that of Earth is fallen, twisted and not known directly by most humans. The story is powerfully imagined, and the effects of lesser gravity on Martian plant and animal life is vividly rendered.
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Known as Jack from childhood, he developed an imaginative gift for storytelling at an early age. He was educated at Cherbourg House and Malvern College in England. He completed his schooling under the private tuition of his father’s retired headmaster living in Great Bookham, Surrey. From there he went on to Oxford. From 1955-1963 he was professor of medieval and renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His conversion from atheism to Christian belief in 1931 resulted in a flow of outstanding theological books that championed Christian faith and made him famous in his own lifetime, but it was his fantasy books for children, The Chronicles of Narnia, that he became best known for.
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