After a discussion with J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis decided to write a story about space travel. This resulted in the first of a trilogy of books, Out of the Silent Planet.
The Book
Wikipedia
Quotation Graphics
Edition Covers
- The Disordered Image
Companion Works
- Religion and Rocketry
- What would life on other planets mean for Christianity?
- The Seeing Eye
- Finding God in space
- Perelandra
- The sequel
- That Hideous Strength
- The final book in the Ransom Trilogy
Commentary
- Chegg.com
- Pints With Jack
- Lewisiana.nl
Books
- Compass for Deep Heaven by Dr. Diana Glyer
- Deeper Heaven by Christiana Hale
- Final Frontier by Sanford Schwartz
- Planets in Peril by Dr. David C. Downing
Articles
- A Pilgrim In Narnia
- AaronTP
- Pints With Jack
Podcasts
- All of Christ For All Of Life
- Bookin’ It
- The C.S. Lewis Bookclub
- The C.S. Lewis Podcast
- #103 Dr Sarah Waters: Out of the Silent Planet and the Covid pandemic
- #104 Out of the Silent Planet and Lewis’ Belfast background
- #115 Why did no one want to publish Lewis’ Space Trilogy?
- #116 Did CS Lewis believe in aliens?
- #117 Vivisection, mental health, racism and sexism
- #118 Evil, evolution and theological reflection in The Space Trilogy
- #119 Has The Space Trilogy stood the test of time?
- #120 Out of the Silent Planet: Weston, Devine and JRR Tolkien
- #121 Out of the Silent Planet: Nakedness, science and Ransom
- #122 Out of the Silent Planet: Love, sex and intuition
- #123 Out of the Silent Planet: Death, suffering and The Fall
- Culture Zoo Podcast
- Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 1-3
- Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 4-6
- Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 7-9
- Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 10-12
- Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 13-15
- Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 16-18
- Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 19-21
- Out of the Silent Planet: Chapter 22, Postscript & Closing thoughts
- The Eudo Podcast
- The Inklings Variety Hour
- The Literary Life Podcast
- Mere C. S. Lewis
- Piety and Paideia
- Pints With Jack
- S5E12 – AH – Andrew Wall (“The Fantasy and Science-Fiction Makers”)
- S6E1 – OSP (Introduction) – “Ad Astra”
- S6E2 – OSP 1 – “Road House”
- S6E10 – OSP 9+10 – “First Contact”
- S6E11 – OSP 11 – “The Quiet Place”
- S6E12 – AH – “Planets in Peril”, After Hours with Dr. David Downing
- S6E13 – OSP 12 – “Jaws”
- S6E16 – OSP 14+15 – “In the Heights”
- S6E17 – AH – “Deeper Heaven”, After Hours with Cristiana Hale
- S6E18 – OSP 16 – “Gods and Monsters”
- S6E19 – OSP 17 – “The Island”
- S6E20 – OSP 18 – “The Martian”
- S6E4 – OSP 2 – “Cocktail”
- Solomon’s Corner
- The Wade Center
Videos
Alan Snyder
The C.S. Lewis Foundation (Dr. Jerry Root)
Pastor Douglas Wilson
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
The Gospel Coalition
Reformed Theological Seminary
The Science-Fiction Makers
Signum University (Corey Olsen)
“The Tolkien Professor” has a series of lectures on this book: