So great to see a review of 'Out of the Silent Planet'! Lewis loved metaphor and allegory. No secret that Lewis was a Christian and his work espoused Christian thought and values. It's been over 40 years since I read this novel. Definitely time for a reread! Thanks Tim!
I’m writing a science fantasy book and I realized I was more interested in the spiritual & social themes than the hard science of what I was writing, so I decided to order this trilogy to see how C S Lewis handled a similar theme. I’m looking forward to reading it! I also just read (and did a video review of) Jesus on Mars by Philip Jose Farmer. It was more thought provoking than I expected. Religion & science fiction are an interesting mix. Also in one of my random ebay book searches, I found a book called Singer’s Scherzo or something like that. Apparently it includes sh!t talking, alcohol otters, which that alien at the beginning of your video reminded me. Thanks for your review!
@@CptSamelsSigils Thanks for watching. I think Lewis does a fantastic job weaving the spiritual and philosophical elements into this story, so it's well worth your time. And good luck with the writing! 🤘
great review!!! I really appreciate your Enthusiasm for books, regardless of age or era or genre, PS: I hope this year you and a friend can read and review an old ACE Double book. - part of me wishes some publisher would print books like that in the 2025's
@@ajaxplunkett5115 I'm actually reviewing a double of Ring Around the Sun & Cosmic Manhunt right now. I'll probably review both at the same time when I'm finished.
Glad to hear the book is solid! I'm a Christian myself and I've been wanting to get into C.S. Lewis for a while now. Grew up watching the first Narnia movie. After reading Till We Have Faces, I plan on reading this trilogy at some point.
Tolkien did start writing his time travel novel. The Notion Club Papers. It’s incomplete, but it’s contained in The History of Middle-Earth: Sauron Defeated.
Great review! I read this trilogy a couple of decades ago so I’m bit fuzzy on the details of the story but I know I liked it. I think it’s time for a reread.
Cool. There exist a sorta kinda fourth book to the Space Trilogy. The character MacPherson in That Hideous Strength was first in an unfinished draft of another science fiction book, The Dark Tower.
@RHampton Fair point. And that's not even factoring in his long, soulful contemplation on society's inevitable absorption by industrialism...while puffing on a good tobacco pipe, of course. No wonder he never finished that story.
@sfwordsofwonder Absolutely. Lewis's alien cultures were REALLY interesting to me and I want to see what other kinds of weird ideas he has on other planets in the rest of the trilogy.
There’s a lot of variation from book to book in this trilogy. The second book is largely a philosophical dialogue, and the third book is a dystopian story combined with Arthurian legend.
‘No, seriously ,’ Guildford protested, ‘I only objected to parts, not to the whole of your latest (story), Michael. Only to the first chapter and the end of the last one, really. But there! I suppose no one has ever solved the difficulty of arriving, of getting to another planet, no more in literature than in life. (…) Anyway, the opening chapters, the journey, of space-travel tales seem to me always the weakest. Scientifiction, as a rule: and that is a base alloy. Yes it is, Master Frankley, so don’t interrupt! Just as much as the word is an ill-made portmanteau: rotten for traveling with. And that goes for your machine, too, Ramer. Though it’s one of the better failures, perhaps.’ this is what Tolkien wrote (pretty obviously about "Out of the Silent Planet") in "The Notion Club Papers" his unfinished time travel novel. it was eventually published in histories of middle earth 9, Sauron Defeated
So great to see a review of 'Out of the Silent Planet'! Lewis loved metaphor and allegory. No secret that Lewis was a Christian and his work espoused Christian thought and values. It's been over 40 years since I read this novel. Definitely time for a reread! Thanks Tim!
@@vintagesf Hail, Richard! Reread it. It's awesome!
I’m writing a science fantasy book and I realized I was more interested in the spiritual & social themes than the hard science of what I was writing, so I decided to order this trilogy to see how C S Lewis handled a similar theme. I’m looking forward to reading it!
I also just read (and did a video review of) Jesus on Mars by Philip Jose Farmer. It was more thought provoking than I expected. Religion & science fiction are an interesting mix.
Also in one of my random ebay book searches, I found a book called Singer’s Scherzo or something like that. Apparently it includes sh!t talking, alcohol otters, which that alien at the beginning of your video reminded me.
Thanks for your review!
@@CptSamelsSigils Thanks for watching. I think Lewis does a fantastic job weaving the spiritual and philosophical elements into this story, so it's well worth your time. And good luck with the writing! 🤘
That's like the Brown Jenkin of space otters!
@@TheBookGraveyard Yeah, if I start seeing that thing in my dreams, I might need to seek help.
thanks!
great review!!! I really appreciate your Enthusiasm for books, regardless of age or era or genre,
PS: I hope this year you and a friend can read and review an old ACE Double book. - part of me wishes some publisher would print books like that in the 2025's
@@ajaxplunkett5115 I'm actually reviewing a double of Ring Around the Sun & Cosmic Manhunt right now. I'll probably review both at the same time when I'm finished.
Thank you for the review it sounds interesting. Will have to add it to my tbr.
Really underrated series.
Great review too btw!
Great review! These are on my shelf and on my TBR!
@@LiminalSpaces03 Hail, Chris! Read them! READ THEM NOW!!
Great review! I have "The Space Trilogy" and need to reread it.
Glad to hear the book is solid! I'm a Christian myself and I've been wanting to get into C.S. Lewis for a while now. Grew up watching the first Narnia movie.
After reading Till We Have Faces, I plan on reading this trilogy at some point.
@@RalphNC09 Awesome! Lewis's fiction is very witty and imaginative. One of my top 10 authors, for sure.
Tolkien did start writing his time travel novel. The Notion Club Papers. It’s incomplete, but it’s contained in The History of Middle-Earth: Sauron Defeated.
Oh stop, you know those space otters are cute. Great review Tim!
@BadTasteBooks The book does describe the hrossa children as being weirdly cute. I imagined little, 3-foot tall bipedal pugs.
Great review! I read this trilogy a couple of decades ago so I’m bit fuzzy on the details of the story but I know I liked it. I think it’s time for a reread.
@@chrislydon4684 DO IT!!
Also, thanks a bunch! 🤘
Cool.
There exist a sorta kinda fourth book to the Space Trilogy. The character MacPherson in That Hideous Strength was first in an unfinished draft of another science fiction book, The Dark Tower.
It's funny you think Professor Tolkien had spare time. Wife, child, religious devotions, work, men's club, side gig. Fellow was grinding.
@RHampton Fair point. And that's not even factoring in his long, soulful contemplation on society's inevitable absorption by industrialism...while puffing on a good tobacco pipe, of course. No wonder he never finished that story.
Good review Tim! CS Lewis does SF? I'm in!
@@GrammaticusBooks It is some SUPER flimsy pseudo-science, but Lewis writes it very well. Highly recommended.
I bought this trilogy in a real nice box set❤ $3 at a thrift shop😊
@@robertlynn7746 Nice. That's a deal right there!
👍!
Thanks for the review, I'm going to be reading this one later in the year. Did it interest you enough to read the whole trilogy?
@sfwordsofwonder Absolutely. Lewis's alien cultures were REALLY interesting to me and I want to see what other kinds of weird ideas he has on other planets in the rest of the trilogy.
There’s a lot of variation from book to book in this trilogy. The second book is largely a philosophical dialogue, and the third book is a dystopian story combined with Arthurian legend.
@@OpponentofStupidity-k6s Interesting! Thanks for the heads up 👍
It’s the Otters from South Park…The Allied Atheist Alliance!
@kevintowle9665 Trust me, these guys are much freakier and at the same time much more wholesome. 🤣
‘No, seriously ,’ Guildford protested, ‘I only objected to parts, not to the whole of your latest (story), Michael. Only to the first chapter and the end of the last one, really. But there! I suppose no one has ever solved the difficulty of arriving, of getting to another planet, no more in literature than in life. (…) Anyway, the opening chapters, the journey, of space-travel tales seem to me always the weakest. Scientifiction, as a rule: and that is a base alloy. Yes it is, Master Frankley, so don’t interrupt! Just as much as the word is an ill-made portmanteau: rotten for traveling with. And that goes for your machine, too, Ramer. Though it’s one of the better failures, perhaps.’
this is what Tolkien wrote (pretty obviously about "Out of the Silent Planet") in "The Notion Club Papers" his unfinished time travel novel. it was eventually published in histories of middle earth 9, Sauron Defeated