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Out of the silent planet (the first of lewis’ space trilogy) is a short one, (only 138 pages) but god is in the details of this science fiction classic in a big way. In silent planet, lewis takes aim at the sophistry of the enlightenment intellectuals... Read More
The book makes a fine adventure story, even if it is scientifically inaccurate. Scholars have many takes on this novel and its themes. And competently written. Some quotes to tweak your interest.
In all the ways that they are not “human” they show the brokenness of our human society. Revisiting this classic 50 years later was fun. They are fun but paint a wise vision of relations between individuals, societies, and mankind as a whole.
The three earthlings who have arrived on malacandra show their level of straightness or bentness as this story unfolds. Bent creatures are full of fears. Each planet has its own oyarsa, satan, the bent one.
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The print quality is spotty and my copy makes use of quotation marks as an apostrophe.
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They all worship the creator maleldil the young who lives with the old one clear corollaries to god the son and god the father
Lewis i could certainly see his love for the works of h
Out of the silent planet is a brilliant story latent with the theological virtue of hope that is a rebuttal to wells materialis... Read More
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It is because every one of them wants to be a little oyarsa himself
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He expects space to be cold and dark but discovers instead it is bathed in euphoric light that is the diffused light of some outer heavens34the very name space seemed a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam
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What he finds instead is a utopia that never experienced the fall
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Society is ordered according to the principles of psalms 848
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For example the goddess athena is the patron protector of athens
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