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A Module in C.S. Lewis's Medieval Sci-Fi
• Non-Sequential Series
Discussion-based
Medium intensity
Days and Times
Meeting Tuesdays & Thursdays at 4:00 PM Eastern for eight 1-hour sessions on October 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27
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“Space was the wrong name. Older thinkers had been wiser when they named it simply the heavens…”
In C.S. Lewis’s 1938 novel Out of the Silent Planet, Dr Elwin Ransom – a character suspiciously like the author’s friend J.R.R. Tolkien – is abducted and taken to Malacandra (Mars) where he sets about learning the Martians’ languages and exploring the planet.
We will read through Lewis’s "planetary romance,” discussing the meaning behind the novel and how it fits in with Lewis’s ideas about religion, the medieval and renaissance worldview, and the ethics of space exploration.
Out of the Silent Planet is the first part of Lewis’s Space Trilogy, but it can be read independently or in sequence with the other novels in the series.
In C.S. Lewis’s 1938 novel Out of the Silent Planet, Dr Elwin Ransom – a character suspiciously like the author’s friend J.R.R. Tolkien – is abducted and taken to Malacandra (Mars) where he sets about learning the Martians’ languages and exploring the planet.
We will read through Lewis’s "planetary romance,” discussing the meaning behind the novel and how it fits in with Lewis’s ideas about religion, the medieval and renaissance worldview, and the ethics of space exploration.
Out of the Silent Planet is the first part of Lewis’s Space Trilogy, but it can be read independently or in sequence with the other novels in the series.
Required Texts
C.S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet
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