Out of the Silent Planet…
One of the paintings that I did sometime ago is a perennial favorite. The name of the painting is Perelandra from the C. S. Lewis novel of the same name. I’ve had it in mind to do the whole series of three books. I got antsy last night and started working on Out of the Silent Planet. It is the first book in the series. The story follows the adventures of a man named Ransom after he is shanghaied on a spaceship bound for Mars. The second book is called Perelandra the name that the inhabitants of Venus call their planet. The Martians call their planet Malacandra. The third book is called That Hideous Strength. It concludes the adventures of Ransom who is a virtual cripple after battling Satan; who has been trying to seduce the two young inhabitants of Venus that are still in their “Adam and Eve” innocence. Ransom teams up with a resurrected Merlin and armies of angels from Malachandra and Perelandra in the last battle to over through the Apostate Church. This is all allegorical of course but its a great read for C.S. Lewis fans. By the way, C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien we friends in the Odd Fellows Society at Oxford. Or was it Cambridge? Anyway Lewis dedicated The Screw Tape Letters to his friend Tolkien. I know this looks like a cookie with a bite out of it. The missing piece is where Ransom’s abductor’s space ship will be.
