![]() Neither a full-scale colonization project nor the complete extraction of Malacadra’s resources takes place as the men from earth stand trial to test their humanity. The desire to invade Malacandra is split between the motivations of the two main villains: one wishes to protect the human race by spreading it among the stars, while the other wants gold. Breaking an age-long silence between t he planets, men have finally found the technological means out of their world. ![]() OSP is the story of a clueless English academic kidnapped while on holiday and taken to another planet, Malacandra, to be sacrificed by the native population to their gods. Both academics, as their research was so different, A Door Into Ocean ( Door, 1987) is a much different kind of book than Out of the Silent Planet (OSP, 1937).ĭespite this, there are some similarities between the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first is a living American microbiologist writing highly technical science fiction in environmental, feminist, lesbian, and pacifist streams, while the second was a British literary historian writing Christian scientifiction in the modernist strain with little care for hard science. On the face of it, Joan Slonczewski and C.S. ![]()
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