Best of
Science-Fiction

1938

Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength


C.S. Lewis - 1938
    Lewis's ill-informed and terrified victim who leaves Earth much against his will and who, in the first book of the trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, published by the Bodley Head in 1938, encounters the imaginary and delightful world of Macalandra. In the second book, Perelandra (1943), Ransom is transported to a world of sweet smells and delicious tastes, a new Garden of Eden in which is enacted, with a difference, the story of Temptation. That Hideous Strength (1945) completes the trilogy and finds Dr Ransom returned from his travels in space and living in an English university town - where the Senior Common Room is given a mysterious depth, a more than earthly dimension which such things, in the author's view, always have in life.C.S. Lewis believed that popular science was the new mythology of his age, and in The Cosmic Trilogy he ransacks the uncharted territory of space and makes that mythology the medium of his spiritual imagination.

Orson Welles' WAR OF THE WORLDS


NOT A BOOK - 1938
    G. Wells' novel of the same name. The War of the Worlds is truly the mother of all spaceinvasions, offering a rare combination of chills, thrills and great literature.Download at http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

Seeds of the Dusk


Raymond Z. Gallun - 1938
    Gallun invites us into the world of biological warfare.