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1) Perelandra
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In "Perelandra", Elwin Ransom, the hero of "Out of the Silent Planet" travels to Venus at the request of Oyarsa, the angelic ruler of Malacandra (Mars). After arriving, he meets the queen of Venus, an Eve-like being named Tinidril who rules over the unspoiled paradise of floating patches of vegetation on a sweetwater sea. When Professor Weston appears on Perelandra, Ransom must overcome his old nemesis' deception to save Tinidril and her planet from...
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In "Out of the Silent Planet", the first book of C.S. Lewis' celebrated Space Trilogy, two men, Devine and Weston, capture a third, Ransom, and take him to the planet of Malacandra via a space craft. When Ransom learns that the men plan to sacrifice him to the strange planet's inhabitants, he escapes on foot. Lewis' descriptions of the otherworldly land of Malacandra are captivating, as well as his descriptions of Ransom's learning of the native language...
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In "That Hideous Strength", the lives of two young academics, Mark and Jane Studdock are upended when a research agency, the National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.), purchases land thought to be the burial place of the ancient wizard Merlin from Bracton College, where they work. While Mark strives to join the inner circle of N.I.C.E., Jane, seeks help for her troubling recurring dreams in a nearby town called St. Anne's. It is there...
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Luta Paixon, capitaine du vaisseau marchand Tane Ikai, veut comprendre pourquoi elle a l'apparence d'une femme de trente ans alors qu'elle en a en réalité quatre-vingt-quatre. Elle n'est toutefois pas la seule à vouloir mettre la main sur cette information... Sa mère, une généticienne qui a disparu près de soixante ans plus tt, détient peut-être la clé de cette histoire. Cependant, admettant que sa mère soit toujours en vie, la traquer...
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Dale Kinmont spends his days helping the new government of Venus adjust to independence. He is comfortable there, and certainly doesn't want to go to some horrible place like the Crater prison colony on Mercury. But when Uncle Zack goes there and winds up missing, Dale knows he's the only one who can find him.Crater is too big for him to search for Zack by himself, so he must enlist the aid of the local partisans. Their assistance comes at a price,...
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Dale Kinmont recruits Martian volunteers to travel to Venus and aid in its defense. He assembles an army and dispatches them ahead of schedule. They'll beat Nat there with time to spare, and Dale is optimistic.
The plan is soon derailed. Nat and his army of convicts aren't going to Venus as planned-they're on their way to Mars. Dale's army's ship can't turn around, and they will never make it back in time.
He must find a way to defend his uncle's...
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Dale Kinmont is a college student in post-catastrophe America. He's lucky; he lives in one of the walled cities for the nation's elite, and life is pleasant. He expects to graduate and find employment in his uncle's company.Everything changes when he's framed for murder. He's tried, convicted, and sentenced to hard labor in the prison colony on Mercury. He ends up in Hesperus instead, a flying city that soars eternally through the acidic skies of...
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Book Three in The Space Empire Trilogy -
Alexander risked everything for Michael, only to see himself barely tolerated in the reconciliation between the Space Empire's king and his son. Forces are at work far beyond Lorelei's Peace Child plans and Randolph and Aidan's struggles for acceptance. The empire that has never welcomed an Earthling into its ranks, much less allowed a marriage with someone who might step up to the throne. The Church's claimed...
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Aidan, their unintended traveling companion, is losing blood fast. The destruction of two possible escape vehicles and the forced evacuation of the third leaves them little choice. But a golf cart in the dense wilderness isn't the best getaway vehicle. An introduction to Earth's Fourth Empire really wasn't on Michael or Randolph's calendar.
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C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, beginning with Ransom, Weston and Devine traveling to Malacandra in Out of the Silent Planet, through Perelandra, and ending with That Hideous Strength, are considered some of the finest science fiction novels ever written. Combining swashbuckling adventure with serious Christian philosophy, Lewis' prose is captivating and challenging. His vivid, imaginative descriptions of space travel, alien contact and the sights, sounds...
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A series of dark comedy sci-fi novellas put together into one novel. The Divine Space Gods trilogy is parodying The Divine Zetan Trilogy by the same author.
The whole Divine Space Gods trilogy containing Abraham's Follies, Revolution for Dummies, and Rangda's Shenanigans
Divine Space Gods 1: Abraham's Follies
When God dies, an idiot takes his place!
Divine Space Gods 2: Revolution for Dummies
Keila is the perfect revolutionary:
Lacking...
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They say bad news comes in threes, but trouble can multiply.
With HiveZ on the way to the Crab Nebula and annihilation, Tessa Graham is finally ready to relax. After more than a thousand years fighting mankind's worst enemy, she deserves a break.
Unfortunately, fate has other plans.
Jordan Hightower is a man with responsibilities – the first of which is providing for his young sister, LouAnn. The quick-thinking privateer is always looking for...
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In another life, Tessa Graham was a hotshot cyber security geek. The most dangerous thing she tackled in a day was a wayward computer virus. Losing everything puts her life on a different trajectory, one that leads first to love, and then to devastating loss when her soul is stolen and used to target a high-tech nanocyte plague designed to wipe out the human race. Accidentally given an android body, Tessa vows that she will stop humanity's worst enemy...
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In "Humiliation," Michael, crown prince
of the Space Empire, finds that he is not alone in his quest to build an
advanced deep-space battle-ready vessel.
Mysterious ships bearing scarlet crosses pursue his convoy and expose
conspiracies against the Space Empire from within and without.
Michael's adoptive brother Randolph follows him to exile on Earth and a
summer of biblical teaching at Jonathan Edwards' camp meetings.
Forbidden romance leads to...
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