Out of The Silent Planet

Title: Out of The Silent Planet

Author: C. S. Lewis

Rating: ★★★★★

Ages: 12 - 18+

    Back Cover Synopsis:

    

    The first book in C. S. Lewis' acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacle physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. 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. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.

    If you want to check out my posts on what I thought of this book, check out these two links:

https://rhiannareadsbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/out-of-silent-planet-chapters-1-13.html

https://rhiannareadsbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/out-of-silent-planet-chapters-14-21.html

 

 "Everybody is born so that they can learn to live a good life - like loving everybody and being nice, right? Well animals already know how to do that, so they don't have to live so long." -- Robin Downing -- 

 "Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either." -- Stephen King --

"Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neighter are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being." -- Gary Kowalski --

 "Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do." -- Betty White --

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." -- James Herriot -- 

 "Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter." -- Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way --