The Space Trilogy

The Perelandra Trilogy is a trilogy of three science fiction novels of the Irish author Clive Staples Lewis ( CS Lewis). In English it is called Space Trilogy, Cosmic Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy.

It is reported that Lewis ' Out of the Silent Planet, wrote the first volume of the series, after discussions with the writer friend JRR Tolkien about the state of fiction in novels. Tolkien design of a science fiction novel entitled The Lost Road was not completed. A draft was included in volume five of The History of Middle -earth series and topics should be incorporated into Tolkien's also unfinished work The Notion Club Papers.

The three volumes of the trilogy are:

• Out of the Silent Planet (1938, dt Beyond the silent star, first German edition as the silent planet ). The action takes place largely on Mars.
• Perelandra (1943 ), published as Voyage to Venus ( Perelandra dt ). The action takes place largely on Venus
• That Hideous Strength (1945, dt The evil power ). 1958 was published by Avon under the title The Tortured Planet a shortened third edition of the book. The action takes place on Earth.

Ransom

The fictional philologist Elwin Ransom is the main character of the first two volumes and an important character in the third volume. Ransom has certain similarities to the author C. S. Lewis: He is a university professor, an expert on languages ​​and medieval literature, unmarried ( Lewis married first at age 55 ) and has only one surviving relatives.