Books in the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis series:
Out of the Silent Planet (1943)
While on a walking tour Professor Ransom is shanghaied on an interplanetary voyage to Mars where he learns that his conception of the how the world is organized is very far from the truth.
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Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Perelandra: A Novel (1944)
Professor Ransom is summoned to Venus where he witnesses - and takes part in - a re-enactment of the temptation in the Garden of Eden.
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Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups (1946)
This fairy-tale about “magicians, devils, pantomime animals, and planetary angels” was prescient. Colleges like Bracton are now more the rule than the exception and the N.I.C.E. was indeed set up in England where its work is much the same as that of its fictional predecessor.
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Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown