Out of the Silent Planet is the first book of C. S. Lewis's renowned Space Trilogy, which also includes Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. It follows the exploits of the amazing Dr. Ransom. This honourable man is kidnapped by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and transported to the red planet of Malacandra via spaceship. The two men require a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom appears to be the ideal candidate. Ransom, however, eludes his captors while on the planet, risking his life and his prospects of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a place that is both captivating in its differences and instructional in its similarities to Earth. Out of the Silent Planet is a strange and frightening novel that was first published in 1943.