Almost Out of Oxygen: Carbon dioxide poisoning becomes an issue during the return trip.Later still it becomes clear he doesn't even value individual human lives or even the human species as it now is, but just that some creature that has some origin in humanity (however vague) continues to conquer and plunder. Even later when he knows the victim was a person just as he is, he shows no remorse and maintains that the only life of value is human life. Absolute Xenophobe: Weston has no problem shooting Hyoi (who as a hross looks seal-like and not humanoid like Weston expected) on sight without bothering whether he may be murdering a sentinent person.Oyarsa then sends the three humans back to Earth.

Weston and Devine reappear, and their ultimate villainous goals are laid bare and dissected. In the court of Oyarsa, Ransom learns much of the history of eldila and the solar system, and the reason why Thulcandra (the titular Silent Planet, that is, Earth) has heretofore been cut off from the Heavens. This being is an eldil - basically, an angel - and actually just wants to talk. He is then summoned to see Oyarsa, the ruler of Malacandra. He escapes, locates and falls in among the civilized natives (the otterlike hrossa) and learns their language and their ways. Philologist Elwin Ransom is kidnapped by the (evil) scientists Devine and Weston, and taken in their space-ship to the planet Malacandra (or Mars, as we call it) as a human sacrifice to appease the natives while they mine the place for gold. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet is a tribute to early science-fiction of the likes of From The Earth to the Moon. The first volume of The Space Trilogy by C.

Out of the silent planet