The Space Trilogy by CS Lewis
The
Interplanetary series or space trilogy by CS Lewis consists of three and a half
books; ‘Out of the Silent Planet’, ‘Perelandra (Voyage to Venus)’, ‘That
Hideous Strength’ and ‘The Dark Tower’. The manuscript for ‘The Dark Tower’ was
rescued by a friend after CS Lewis died in 1963. It had an extremely narrow
escape from being burned, but the gardener put off burning it and a few other notebooks
as well. I have only just started reading this one and sadly it is not quite
complete and finishes mid-sentence. The books are fantasy and science fiction
but they are set in the time period of when CS Lewis wrote them. I really enjoyed the first two, but I found
the first half of ‘That Hideous Strength’ difficult but by the end I could not
put it down, I stayed up quite late reading them a few times........ They also
have really cool sounding words in them like; Perelandra, Malacandra,
Viritribia, Thulcandra and other interesting words. They are “out of this
planet” or at least the first two books are.
‘Out
of the Silent Planet’ is mostly set on the planet Malacandra which is a very
old dying planet, its inhabitants now live in valleys beneath the main surface
of the planet. The main
character, Ransom is taken there as a captive.
‘Perelandra’,
is also mostly set on a planet but this time it is on Perelandra. Which is just
coming into habitation and was perfect but a ‘bent’ (evil) man has come and
Ransom is brought there to try and stop him making Perelandra ‘bent’ like Thulcandra was.
‘That Hideous Strength’ Is set on earth and
is like in Ephesians 6:12 which
says: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but
against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over
this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly
places. Ransom is also in this book but is not the main character.
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Yay! I finally found your blog!
ReplyDeleteThese books sound very interesting, shame about the last one though.
Rosie