Kyle Harrison
to-read
Out of the Silent Planet
- Author
- C.S. Lewis
- Published
- 1938
- Pages
- 174
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: First of Lewis’s Space Trilogy, and the founding entry in the small genre of science fiction that takes theology seriously.
One of three covers @politicalmath posted in reply to the Spielberg claim; the other two are Speaker for the Dead and The Book of Strange New Things.
Where I saw it: @politicalmath on X, June 8, 2026 — a one-word reply (“wat”) to the claim that a forthcoming alien film would make Christians question their faith, attaching the covers of three novels that had already done exactly that.
Connections
- C.S. Lewis — author.
- That Hideous Strength — third in the same trilogy, saved separately.
- Speaker for the Dead and The Book of Strange New Things — the other two covers in the same post.
- Religious Intellectualism — faith as a live question rather than set dressing.