Written by C. S. Lewis

Published by Harper Collins (1938 originally) 2005, paperback, 224 pages.

Book one in The Cosmic Trilogy. Dr. Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet’s treasures and intend to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the ‘silent planet’-Earth-whose tragic story is known throughout the universe…