Lewis’s Space Trilogy.įrom a biblical worldview, there are two interesting questions raised by Lewis’s book. Out of the Silent Planet was indeed followed by Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945). Ransom, offered the choice to stay, decides to travel back with them. Finally, Oyarsa banishes Weston and Devine from Malacandra and order them back to Thulcandra. Devine, for his part, is exposed as a greedy gold-seeker. During the trial, Weston brags humanity will colonise planet after planet to ensure the continuity of the human race. Then Devine and Weston appear before Oyarsa to stand trial for their killing of three hrossa.
Oyarsa explains to Ransom that Earth is known to the Malacandrans as Thulcandra, “the silent planet.” Thulcandra has been isolated from the heavenly community ever since a rebellious Oyarsa was imprisoned there by Maleldil following a great war. Finally, Ransom reaches the Oyarsa of Malacandra.
From the seroni, Ransom learns each planet has its own Oyarsa, and these Oyarsas communicate with one another. Also present on Malacandra are eldila, invisible angel-like spirits.Īfter some time, Ransom is called before Oyarsa at Meldilorn, and he begins to journey towards him. According to the Malacandrans, the universe was created by a godlike entity called Maleldil. Instead they are all ruled by Oyarsa, an angel-like figure. Neither of the three species are masters of the others. The hrossa excel at poetry, the pfifltriggi are skilled craftsmen, and the sorn possess scientific and philosophical knowledge. Ransom is guest with the hrossa for several months, begins to learn their language, and discovers there are two other intelligent species on Malacandra: the pfifltriggi and the seroni. Once arrived to Malacandra, Ransom escapes Weston and Devine, wanders the landscape, and is rescued by a hross named Hyoi, who leads him to a village of the hrossa. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet (1938), the main character, Ransom, a philologist, is drugged and kidnapped by Devine, an old schoolmate, and Weston, a great physicist, and transported in a spaceship from Earth to Malacandra, which we later learn is Mars.
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