{"product_id":"out-of-the-silent-planet-9780684833644","title":"Out of the Silent Planet","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom C.S. Lewis, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicles of Narnia\u003c\/i\u003e, comes the first book in the classic science fiction Space Trilogy following the resourceful Dr. Ransom as he is abducted and taken by spaceship to Mars.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which \u003ci\u003eOut of the Silent Planet\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's \u003ci\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/i\u003e and George Orwell's \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e as a timeless classic, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile searching for a place to rest for the night, Dr. Elwin Ransom is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken to the red planet of Malacandra (Mars) as a human sacrifice for the alien creatures that live there. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1943, \u003ci\u003eOut of the Silent Planet \u003c\/i\u003eremains a magnificent and suspenseful tour de force in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. It is the incredible beginning to C.S. Lewis's spectacular Space Trilogy, which also includes \u003ci\u003ePerelandra \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThat Hideous Strength\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC.S. Lewis was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford and Cambridge universities who wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime, including \u003ci\u003eThe Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMere Christianity.\u003c\/i\u003e He died in 1963\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613388345618,"sku":"9780684833644","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_668a25e9-a111-4874-a28c-37d91e6f04c4.jpg?v=1732399327","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/out-of-the-silent-planet-9780684833644","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}