Book
Out of the Silent Planet
by C.S. Lewis
- Published
- 1938
- Genre
- SciFi/Fantasy
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Pages
- 224
- Words
- 57383
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25350.Out_of_the_Silent_Planet?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_24
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.4
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1020L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 8 onwards · ages 13–16
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the 'silent planet' – Earth – whose tragic story is known throughout the universe...
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781455165100
- ISBN-10
- 1455165107
Tags
EarthMarsScience FictionSeriesSpace