The Ransom Cycle Book 2
C.S. Lewis
Scribner Paperback
ISBN 0684823829
This is the second book in C.S. Lewis’s amazing Space Trilogy. This book was written as a sequel to the immensely popular Out of the Silent Planet but Lewis also wrote it so that the story can stand on its own. So if you haven’t read the first you can start here.
This book takes place some time after the first, but we are not sure how long. Ransom has received a summons to Venus, a planet that is just beginning its inhabited life. This planet’s ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ are on the planet and they must choose to obey God or to reject his law and face a ‘fall’ as has happened on earth.
Ransom must face his old foe Weston, and try to save a planet from great evil. Can he navigate this watery planet; can he negotiate the intricacies of human weakness, temptation and corruption? Can he conquer himself and help others to learn obedience?
This is a great creation story. Try it - you won’t be disappointed.
Note: reread in 2024 and it was an even more powerful story after 26 years.
C.S. Lewis
Scribner Paperback
ISBN 0684823829
This book takes place some time after the first, but we are not sure how long. Ransom has received a summons to Venus, a planet that is just beginning its inhabited life. This planet’s ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ are on the planet and they must choose to obey God or to reject his law and face a ‘fall’ as has happened on earth.
Ransom must face his old foe Weston, and try to save a planet from great evil. Can he navigate this watery planet; can he negotiate the intricacies of human weakness, temptation and corruption? Can he conquer himself and help others to learn obedience?
This is a great creation story. Try it - you won’t be disappointed.
Note: reread in 2024 and it was an even more powerful story after 26 years.
Note 2: Recent scholarship published found a handwritten preface to The Screwtape Letters in the C.S. Lewis Archive in Wheaton, IL. This note indicates the letters were found and translated by Dr. Ransom. And that they were written in Old Solar. Thus linking the 3 Ransom novels, the 2 Screwtape pieces and the partial fourth Ransom novel into one series.
Other Reviews of Lewis's Books.
A Grief Observed
The Four Loves
Other Reviews of Lewis's Books.
A Grief Observed
The Four Loves
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The Ransom Cycle:
The Screwtape Letters
Screwtape Proposes a Toast
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Original Space Trilogy:
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
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The Dark Tower and Other Stories
The Dark Tower and Other Stories
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Narnia Publication Order:
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Last Battle
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Narnia Chronological Order:
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
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Books about C.S. Lewis:
Planet's In Peril: A critical Study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy - David C. Downing
The Man Who Created Narnia - Michael Coren
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