[The Space Trilogy]

[The Space Trilogy]

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2013 · English · Hardcover · 34 editions
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In this imaginative saga, readers accompany Ransom on extraordinary journeys across different worlds, unraveling profound themes of morality, creation, and the vastness of the universe. C.S. Lewis intricately weaves philosophy with science fiction, as Ransom navigates alien landscapes and encounters beings that challenge his understanding of humanity and existence. Each planet presents unique cultures and dilemmas, pushing Ransom to confront both external and internal conflicts.

The narrative is rich with allegory, drawing parallels to spiritual and ethical questions that resonate deeply with human experience. Through Ransom's adventures, readers are invited to reflect on the nature of good and evil, the struggle for redemption, and the interconnectedness of life throughout the cosmos. This trilogy not only entertains with its thrilling escapades but also provokes thoughtful consideration of our place in the universe and our moral responsibilities to one another and the world around us.

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Format Hardcover
Language English
Published Oct 24, 2013
Publisher HarperCollins
Editions 34 editions

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The Cosmic Trilogy relates the interplanetary travels of Ransom, C.S. Lewis's ill-informed and terrified victim who leaves Earth much against his will and who, in the first book of the trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, published by the Bodley Head in 1938, encounters the imaginary and delightful world of Macalandra. In the second book, Perelandra (1943), Ransom is transported to a world of sweet smells and delicious tastes, a new Garden of Eden in which is enacted, with a difference, the story of Temptation. That Hideous Strength (1945) completes the trilogy and finds Dr Ransom returned from his travels in space and living in an English university town - where the Senior Common Room is given a mysterious depth, a more than earthly dimension which such things, in the author's view, always have in life. C.S. Lewis believed that popular science was the new mythology of his age, and in The Cosmic Trilogy he ransacks the uncharted territory of space and makes that mythology the medium of his spiritual imagination.

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