Out of the Silent Planet

After a discussion with J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis decided to write a story about space travel. This resulted in the first of a trilogy of books, Out of the Silent Planet.

The Book

• Purchase on Amazon

Wikipedia

• Out of the Silent Planet
• Out of the Silent Planet Wiki

Quotation Graphics

• Out of the Silent Planet Canva Graphics

Edition Covers

• The Disordered Image
  • Out of the Silent Planet (OSP) Settings Master Page

Companion Works

• Religion and Rocketry
  • What would life on other planets mean for Christianity?
• The Seeing Eye
  • Finding God in space
• Perelandra
  • The sequel
• That Hideous Strength
  • The final book in the Ransom Trilogy

Commentary

• Chegg.com
  • Out of the Silent Planet Vocabulary
• Pints With Jack
  • Out of the Silent Planet Dictionary
• Lewisiana.nl
  • Quotations and Allusions in C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

Books

• Compass for Deep Heaven by Dr. Diana Glyer
• Deeper Heaven by Christiana Hale
• Final Frontier by Sanford Schwartz
• Planets in Peril by Dr. David C. Downing

Articles

• A Pilgrim In Narnia
  • A Cosmic Find in The Screwtape Letters
  • [All tagged articles]
• AaronTP
  • Comic Book
• Pints With Jack
  • Out of the Silent Planet Dictionary

Podcasts

• All of Christ For All Of Life
  • Out of the Silent Planet / Douglas Wilson
• Bookin’ It
  • 62. C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy + The Mysterious Benedict Society + The False Prince + Dune
  • 63. Out of the Silent Planet
• The C.S. Lewis Bookclub
  • Out of the Silent Planet pt. 1 ch 1-7
  • Out of the Silent Planet pt. 2 ch 8-14
  • Out of the Silent Planet pt. 3 ch 15-22
  • Out of the Tower, OSP book club w/ Sarah and Calvin Simmons
• The C.S. Lewis Podcast
  • #103 Dr Sarah Waters: Out of the Silent Planet and the Covid pandemic
  • #104 Out of the Silent Planet and Lewis’ Belfast background
  • #115 Why did no one want to publish Lewis’ Space Trilogy?
  • #116 Did CS Lewis believe in aliens?
  • #117 Vivisection, mental health, racism and sexism
  • #118 Evil, evolution and theological reflection in The Space Trilogy
  • #119 Has The Space Trilogy stood the test of time?
  • #120 Out of the Silent Planet: Weston, Devine and JRR Tolkien
  • #121 Out of the Silent Planet: Nakedness, science and Ransom
  • #122 Out of the Silent Planet: Love, sex and intuition
  • #123 Out of the Silent Planet: Death, suffering and The Fall
• Culture Zoo Podcast
  • Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 1-3
  • Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 4-6
  • Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 7-9
  • Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 10-12
  • Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 13-15
  • Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 16-18
  • Out of the Silent Planet: Chapters 19-21
  • Out of the Silent Planet: Chapter 22, Postscript & Closing thoughts
• The Eudo Podcast
  • Season 6 of the Eudo Podcast
• The Inklings Variety Hour
  • Out of the Silent Planet, Part 1
  • Out of the Silent Planet, Part 2
  • Out of the Silent Planet, Part 3
  • Out of the Silent Planet, Part 4 (David Downing)
  • Aliens and C.S. Lewis (”Religion and Rocketry”), with Jordan Duncan
• The Literary Life Podcast
  • Episode 192: “The First Men In the Moon” by H. G. Wells, An Introduction to Sci-Fi
  • Episode 193: “Out of the Silent Planet” by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 1-5
  • Episode 194: “Out of the Silent Planet” by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 6-15
  • Episode 195: “Out of the Silent Planet” by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 16-End
• Mere C. S. Lewis
  • Out of the Silent Planet
• Piety and Paideia
  • Out of The Silent Planet: Introduction
  • Out of the Silent Planet Episode 2: Chapters 1-6
• Pints With Jack
  • S5E12 – AH – Andrew Wall (“The Fantasy and Science-Fiction Makers”)
  • S6E1 – OSP (Introduction) – “Ad Astra”
  • S6E2 – OSP 1 – “Road House”
  • S6E10 – OSP 9+10 – “First Contact”
  • S6E11 – OSP 11 – “The Quiet Place”
  • S6E12 – AH – “Planets in Peril”, After Hours with Dr. David Downing
  • S6E13 – OSP 12 – “Jaws”
  • S6E16 – OSP 14+15 – “In the Heights”
  • S6E17 – AH – “Deeper Heaven”, After Hours with Cristiana Hale
  • S6E18 – OSP 16 – “Gods and Monsters”
  • S6E19 – OSP 17 – “The Island”
  • S6E20 – OSP 18 – “The Martian”
  • S6E22 – OSP 19 – “Lost in Translation”
  • S6E23 – OSP 20 – “War of the Worlds”
  • S6E24 – OSP 21 – “Down to Earth”
  • S6E31 – OSP – “Out of the Silent Planet” Retrospective
  • S6E28 – “The Dark Tower” – Dr. Junius Johnson
  • S6E26 – OSP 22 and Postscript – “Heaven is for real”
  • S6E14 – OSP 13 – “Predator”
• S6E4 – OSP 2 – “Cocktail”
  • S6E5 – OSP 3+4 – “Rocketman”
  • S6E6 – AH – “Compass for Deep Heaven”, After Hours with Dr. Diana Glyer
  • S6E7 – OSP 5+6 – “Interstellar”
  • S6E8 – OSP 7+8 – “Arrival”
• Solomon’s Corner
  • Ep. 22 C.S. Lewis & the Space Trilogy
• The Wade Center
  • The Lost Lewis Tapes: Vol. 1, Out of the Silent Planet

Videos

Alan Snyder

• C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy

The C.S. Lewis Foundation (Dr. Jerry Root)

Pastor Douglas Wilson

Paul VanderKlay

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

The Gospel Coalition

• Out of the Silent Planet
• Perelandra
• That Hideous Strength

Reformed Theological Seminary

• Out of the Silent Planet – A new realistic view of man

The Science-Fiction Makers

• S5E12 – AH – Andrew Wall (“The Fantasy and Science-Fiction Makers”)

Signum University (Corey Olsen)

“The Tolkien Professor” has a series of lectures on this book:

Series Squared

Dr. Scott Masson

Dr. Ted Sherman

The Tolle Lege Podcast

Into the Wardrobe

Young Heretics