Reading order · 3 books · 1938 to 1945 · Set in Mars, Venus and England
Space Trilogy in Order
The Space Trilogy follows Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philologist who is taken to Mars and Venus and finds himself in a cosmic struggle between good and evil.
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Series facts
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 1938 to 1945
- First book
- Out of the Silent Planet
- Latest
- That Hideous Strength (1945)
- Setting
- Set in Mars, Venus and England
The reading order
Every Space Trilogy book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
3 books · Set in Mars, Venus and England
- 1Out of the Silent Planet1938With Elwin RansomElwin Ransom, a philologist on a walking holiday, is kidnapped by two men and taken by spaceship to Malacandra, the planet Mars, where he escapes and meets its inhabitants.Buy on Amazon
- 2Perelandra1943With Elwin RansomRansom is sent to Perelandra, the planet Venus, a world of floating islands, where its first woman is being tempted, as Eve was, by a being in the body of an old enemy.Buy on Amazon
- 3That Hideous Strength1945A sinister organisation, the N.I.C.E., arrives in the university town of Edgestow, and a young academic, Mark Studdock, is drawn into it while his wife Jane has strange dreams.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength in order.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Elwin Ransom |
|---|---|
| 1 Out of the Silent Planet | LLead |
| 2 Perelandra | LLead |
| 3 That Hideous Strength | MMajor |
Characters in the Space Trilogy books
1 character from C. S. Lewis’s chart, with the number of Space Trilogy books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Elwin RansomCambridge philologist taken to Mars and Venus | 3 | Out of the Silent Planet 1938 |