The first novel in his classic trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet is at once a brilliantly imagined portrait of life on another world and a mirror to the inhumanities and discords of life in our modern world. Lewis shows Man, arrogant and yet fearful, standing in the presence of the god-like creatures who populate the universe, judged and found wanting. It is the story of two men who sought to plunder a planet and a third man offered as a hostage to the unknown...
C.S. Lewis' classic novels of the interplanetary travels and adventures of Dr Ransom - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra (Voyage to Venus), and That Hideous Strength - are published with the full text and original titling intended by the author for the first time in paperback in these new Pan editions.
This original, interest, and well-written fantasy - L.P. Hartley
A very good book...of thrilling interest as a story, but more than that, it is a kind of poem...a unique thing - Sir Hugh Walpole