They believed that the godless universe theory unleashed to some degree by Darwinists and proponents of the Hegelian superstate/superman, was giving rise to real beliefs (like eugenics which both understood as dangerous and evil) inside academia and government. When Lewis and his friend and colleague, JRR Tolkien, both veterans of WWI, decided to toss that coin, they had been musing together about the sad state of fiction. Gain a vision for the power of fiction (imaginative science fiction in particular) as a way to change hearts and minds.Absorb Lewis’ Christian concept of God/Creator…the beauty and the moral implications.Scintillating ideas that awaken the conscience…Plunge yourself into the mindset of a WWI veteran and a brilliant observer of history and soak in Lewis’ crucial critique of pre-WWII Europe.Superb writing and because this is CS Lewis, when you’re finished reading, your brain will have expanded.The Short Review: 4 Reasons to Read OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET For educators thinking about assigning this book to a young person, a solid discussion on the story would make the experience a profound one. This story is sophisticated, but there is no reason a YA reader or a very learned middle grade reader cannot take on this story. OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET, which I will review here, was the first. In fact, he wound up writing three books of science fiction. Lewis did, published in 1938, twelve years before Narnia.

Tolkien was assigned the time travel novel. The coin was tossed, Lewis was assigned the scifi novel. The understanding between the two men one side of the coin would mean writing a science fiction novel, the other side would mean writing a time travel novel. OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET, by CS Lewis came about as a result of a coin toss between JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis in the 1930s.

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