Lontano dal pianeta silenzioso racconta l’avventura di Elwin Ransom, professore di filologia in vacanza, che due scienziati rapiscono per un loro losco disegno e trasportano sul pianeta Malacandra. Sfuggito ai rapitori il giorno stesso dello sbarco, solo in un mondo dalle tinte di acquerello, dove le foreste sono labirinti di fragili steli violetti alti dodici metri, Ransom incontra Hyoi, del popolo dei hrossa, agricoltori e poeti dal nero corpo lucente, e gli altri abitanti del pianeta: gli altissimi e sapientissimi sorn e i pfifltriggi simili a ranocchi, maestri di tutte le arti della pietra e del metallo. Scoprendo, con il loro aiuto, i segreti del pianeta Malacandra, Ransom scoprirà anche il segreto della Terra, il «pianeta silenzioso» che da millenni ha cessato di conversare con gli altri mondi. «La storia, per un lettore intelligente, ha un gran numero di implicazioni filosofiche e mitologiche tali da attrarre fortemente, senza nulla togliere alla caratteristica più immediata, quella dell’avventura». J.R.R. Tolkien
La Trilogia dello Spazio Serie
Questa epica trilogia approfondisce temi profondi come la fede, il libero arbitrio e la natura del male, ambientata sullo sfondo di mondi alieni e conflitti celesti. Le narrazioni intrecciano elementi soprannaturali e allegorie bibliche, spingendo i lettori a contemplare la condizione umana e l'ordine cosmico. Offre una miscela unica di fantascienza e allegoria spirituale, sfidando le percezioni della realtà e della moralità.






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The second novel in his classic trilogy, Perelandra appears again under its orginal and intended title. It tells of two men from Earth who plunge out of space and through the cloud belt on to Venus. One of them was a man possessed, an emissary of all evil. The other was a man driven by a terrible, yet inspiring mission. On the surface of the mysterious planet of Venus, Dr Ransom and his enemy were to meet in a titanic struggle to decide the destiny of a young and joyous world. 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 with these new Pan editions. Remarkable...a rare power of inventive imagination - The Times Literary Supplement The description of Venus, in its endless age of innocence, is delightful - The Listener
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns. The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.
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Trylogia kosmiczna to niezwykłe dzieło C.S. Lewisa, które przedstawia unikalną wizję wszechświata, różniącą się od tradycyjnych obrazów w science fiction. Autor stawia pytania o sens istnienia ludzkości, która, niszcząc środowisko na Ziemi, może być skazana na kosmiczną samotność. Wspólnym bohaterem wszystkich trzech części jest dr Elwin Ransom, angielski lingwista, wybrany przez Maleldila jako narzędzie w walce dobra ze złem. W pierwszej części, Z milczącej planety, Ransom zostaje porwany na Malakandrę (Mars), gdzie uczestniczy w konflikcie między mieszkańcami a złymi wysłannikami z Ziemi, pragnącymi wykorzystać zasoby planety. W drugiej części, Perelandra, podróżuje na Wenus, gdzie jest świadkiem kuszenia pierwszej pary jej mieszkańców. W trzeciej części, Ta straszna siła, Ransom staje do walki na Ziemi przeciwko grupie naukowców opętanych przez Szatana, którzy pragną wprowadzić brutalny totalitaryzm. W tej bitwie wspierają go duchy innych planet oraz przebudzony Merlin. Trylogia kosmiczna zachwyca pasją, wiarą, sugestywnymi opisami, psychologiczną wiarygodnością postaci i charakterystycznym dla autora humorem. To pierwszy polski przekład pełnego tekstu oryginału.
This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis's classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and Earth. It includes an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume.
Ein englischer Wissenschaftler wird von zwei Kollegen auf eine abenteuerliche Reise durch das Sonnensystem mitgenommen. Dieses phantastische Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur erscheint erstmals in einem Band.