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title: Out of the Silent Planet
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I shouldn't write this review.

C. S Lewis was a great writer.

Credit goes to the man in the ring, not the critic on the sideline.

 I did promise you, fair reader, that I'd read books this year and blog about them. So to keep that promise, here goes the first of a three-part scathe of CS Lewis.

*Out of the Silent Plant *was a fun story to read. While it is science fiction, and [we know how I feel about that](https://www.inathanael.com/2014/06/dont-breakthrough-20-of-50.html), it kept moving and mostly kept my attention.

The explanations, often the plodding and worst parts of books like this, were actually delightful. Probably because they were brief: I actually wanted a bit more explanation, but leaving some things unexplained (or not explained from every angle) kept the story intriguing. Lewis deserves to be called a great writer. When the reader still has something left to question or guess or figure out, the fantasy is doing its job.

As I say on Goodreads, if only the trilogy had stopped here.

[![Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, #1)](https://www.yell.is/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/25350.jpg)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25350.Out_of_the_Silent_Planet)[Out of the Silent Planet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25350.Out_of_the_Silent_Planet) by [C.S. Lewis](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis)  
My rating: [4 of 5 stars](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1135219290)

This is the first of a trilogy, and like most trilogies it could've stopped here.

[View all my reviews](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2136782-nathanael)

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