An intelligent and good-hearted but fairly ordinary man, he is on a walking tour through the English countryside when he is kidnapped by Weston and Devine, intended as a human sacrifice to the inhabitants of Malacandra. It is the first book in Lewis’s Space Trilogy, followed by Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945). Lewis, best known for his bestselling fantasy children’s series, The Chronicles of Narnia. How indeed should it be otherwise, since out of this ocean all the worlds and all their life had come? He had thought it barren: he now saw that it was the womb of worlds, whose blazing and innumerable offspring looked down nightly even upon the earth with so many eyes-and here, with how many more! No: Space was the wrong name. Ransom is a professor of linguistics and the protagonist of Out of the Silent Planet. Published in 1938, Out of the Silent Planet is a science fiction novel by author C. He could not call it 'dead' he felt life pouring into him from it every moment.

Lewis Elwin Ransom is a man of great empathy, bravery and trust. He had not known how much it affected him till now-now that the very name 'Space' seemed a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam. What are at least three character traits for the main character, Ransom, in the book Out of the Silent Planet by C. He had read of 'Space': at the back of his thinking for years had lurked the dismal fancy of the black, cold vacuity, the utter deadness, which was supposed to separate the worlds. A nightmare, long engendered in the modern mind by the mythology that follows in the wake of science, was falling off him. “But Ransom, as time wore on, became aware of another and more spiritual cause for his progressive lightening and exultation of heart.

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