The Space Trilogy. C. S. Lewis

      THE SPACE TRILOGY

      OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET

      PERELANDRA

      THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH

      by C. S. Lewis

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      Out of the Silent Planet first published 1938 by John Lowe (The Bodley Head) Ltd. Perelandra first published 1943 by John Lowe (The Bodley Head) Ltd. That Hideous Strength first published 1945 by John Lowe (The Bodley Head) Ltd.

      Copyright © 1938, 1943, 1945 C. S. Lewis Pte Ltd.

      Foreword & Afterword excerpted from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien copyright © 1981 The J.R.R. Tolkien Copyright Trust

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      Source ISBN: 9780007528417

      Ebook Edition © October 2013 ISBN: 9780007530335 Version: 2018-07-30

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

      Foreword

      

      OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET

       Dedication

      Preface

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Postscript

PERELANDRA

       Dedication

Preface

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       THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH

       Dedication

       Preface

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       Afterword

       About the publisher

       Foreword

      Mr C. S. Lewis tells me that you have allowed him to submit to you ‘Out of the Silent Planet’. I read it, of course; and I have since heard it pass a rather different test: that of being read aloud to our local club (which goes in for reading things short and long aloud). It proved an exciting serial, and was highly approved. But of course we are all rather like-minded.

      It is only by an odd accident that the hero is a philologist (one point in which he resembles me) ... We originally meant each to write an excursionary ‘thriller’: a space-journey [his] and a time-journey (mine) each discovering Myth. But the space-journey has been finished and owing to my slowness and uncertainty the time-journey remains only a fragment, as you know.^[*]

      I read this story in the original manuscript and was so enthralled that I could do nothing until I had finished it. My first criticism was simply that it was too short. I still think that criticism holds ... But the linguistic inventions and the philology on the whole are more than good enough. All the part about language and poetry – the glimpses of its Malacandrian