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 C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, and the founding entry in the small genre of science fiction that takes theology seriously.
Where I heard about it
- @politicalmath — on X, June 2026, answering a claim that a coming Spielberg alien film would have “Christians and people of faith second-guessing their own religion” with one word (“wat”) and the covers of three novels that had already done it. The other two were Speaker for the Dead and The Book of Strange New Things.
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.