Out of the Silent Planet
by C. S. Lewis
In the first novel of the classic C.S. Lewis science fiction trilogy, Dr. Ransom, a scientist from Cambridge, is kidnapped and taken to a spaceship on Malakandra, the red planet he knows as Mars. His captors plan to plunder the planet's treasures and sacrifice the Ransom to the creatures that live there. The ransom discovers that he came from a "silent planet" – Earth – whose tragic story is known in the universe.
