The first in the space trilogy. It introduces the main character, Ransom. While hiking one day he is kidnaped and taken into outer space <ref>The kidnappers are Professor Edward Weston, and Dick Devine. </ref> He is taken to a planet called Malacandra <ref> We learn later it is the planet, Mars. </ref> where he must be handed over to some strange alien creatures called ''sorns''. He escapes and meets other aliens on the planet called ''hrossa''<ref> There is a third race called pfifltriggi but they aren't in the story much. </ref> He eventually goes to see the ruler of Malacandra, Oyarsa. He also meets his captors again and is sent back (freely of his own will) to his own planet. He comes back and according to the story lets a fictional Lewis in on the secret. They decide to publish his time on Malacandra as a fictional novel. <ref> [[Out of the Silent Planet]], by C.S. Lewis, Macmillan publishing, 1965. </ref> | The first in the space trilogy. It introduces the main character, Ransom. While hiking one day he is kidnaped and taken into outer space <ref>The kidnappers are Professor Edward Weston, and Dick Devine. </ref> He is taken to a planet called Malacandra <ref> We learn later it is the planet, Mars. </ref> where he must be handed over to some strange alien creatures called ''sorns''. He escapes and meets other aliens on the planet called ''hrossa''<ref> There is a third race called pfifltriggi but they aren't in the story much. </ref> He eventually goes to see the ruler of Malacandra, Oyarsa. He also meets his captors again and is sent back (freely of his own will) to his own planet. He comes back and according to the story lets a fictional Lewis in on the secret. They decide to publish his time on Malacandra as a fictional novel. <ref> [[Out of the Silent Planet]], by C.S. Lewis, Macmillan publishing, 1965. </ref> |