Out of the silent planet / by C. S. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963, author.

Contributor:

Symancyk, Bernard, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Macmillan ; 08688.

Macmillan ; 08688

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ransom, Elwin (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Ransom, Elwin (Fictitious character).

Life on other planets--Fiction.

Life on other planets.

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

Good and evil--Fiction.

Good and evil.

Philologists--Fiction.

Philologists.

Linguists--Fiction.

Linguists.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Vizak, Randi (autograph) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

160 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1970.

Summary:

Just as readers have been transfixed by the stories, characters, and deeper meanings of Lewis's timeless tales in The Chronicles of Narnia is the first novel in C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy. It tells the adventure of Dr. Ransom, a Cambridge academic, who 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 plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the "silent planet"--Earth--whose tragic story is known throughout the universe!

Notes:

Ninth printing 1970.

Cover painting by Bernard Symancyk.

The 1st vol. of the author's trilogy, the 2d of which is Perelandra, and the 3d of which is That hideous strength.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

OCLC:

26887598