This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis's classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars Venus & Earth It
Includes:: an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by JRR Tolkien who inspired Lewis to write the first volume The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy demonstrating the powerful imagination of CSLewis This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Out of the Silent Planet with an exclusive Foreword by JRR Tolkien on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based OUT OF THE SILENT PLANETDr Ransom a Cambridge academic is abducted & 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 & offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there PERELANDRAHaving escaped from Mars Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra or Venus When his old enemy also arrives & is taken over by the forces of evil Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTHInvestigating the truth about her prophetic dreams Jane Studdock encounters the fabled Dr Ransom who is in great pain after his travels A sinister society run by his old adversaries intends to harness the ancient powers of a resurrected Merlin in their ambition to subjugate the people of Earth