Series Guide

The Cosmic Trilogy

by C. S. Lewis

Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength: Lewis's interplanetary romances, in which the silent planet is Earth and the space between worlds is anything but empty.

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Cover of Out of the Silent Planet

Out of the Silent Planet

1938 · book 1

The great theological riposte within early SF — proof the genre could argue with itself at planetary scale — and the seed of the Ransom trilogy, whose finale That Hideous Strength fed directly into modern dystopian fantasy.