Space Trilogy

The Space Trilogy or Ransom trilogy is a group of three science fiction novels by C. S. Lewis that were inspired and influenced by David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (1920).http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=882 The books in the trilogy are:

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Trilogy - Science fiction - C. S. Lewis - David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus

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• Out of the Silent Planet (1938), set mostly on Mars
• Perelandra (1943), set mostly on Venus
• That Hideous Strength (1945), set on Earth.

A philologist named Elwin Ransom is the hero of the first two novels and an important character in the third.

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Philologist - Elwin Ransom

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The books are not especially concerned with scientific accuracy or technological speculation, and in many ways they read like fantasy adventures. Like most of Lewis's mature writing, they have a thoroughly Christian outlook and much discussion of contemporary rights and wrongs. The Space Trilogy ingeniously fuses Christian themes with science fiction in a way that is comparable with the works of H.G. Wells (Lewis is one of his enthusiasts) and Isaac Asimov (in terms of world-building). Madeline L'Engle's kairos series is quite similar in its outlook.

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Fantasy - Christian - H.G. Wells - Isaac Asimov - Madeline L'Engle

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