Planets In Peril

Author : David C. Downing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planets in Peril written by David C. Downing and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary scholar, novelist, and Christian apologist, C. S. Lewis was a remarkable and enigmatic man. He is perhaps best known today for his popular series of children's books, the Chronicles of Narnia, which continue to sell more than a million copies a year. He also wrote science fiction in the form of interplanetary fantasies - a series of three novels known as the Ransom Trilogy. This book offers the first full-length critical assessment of that trilogy, placing the three volumes in the context of Lewis's life and work. David C. Downing reveals the autobiographical and theological subtexts of Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength, showing as well how much Lewis the classical and medieval scholar influenced the work of Lewis the creator of interplanetary fantasies. Downing also examines the chief imaginative and intellectual sources of the trilogy and addresses persistent issues raised by reviewers and critics: Was Lewis's lifelong devotion to fantasy a mark of intellectual independence or a case of "arrested emotional development"? Were his views on women sexist, even misogynist? How much of his critique of modern science and technology was well informed and how much the result of prejudice or habitual suspicion of all things modern? A brief appendix on "The Dark Tower" fragment provides what background is known about this mysterious document, summarizes the story as far as Lewis developed it, and comments on how this unfinished work fits in with the Ransom books published during Lewis's lifetime.

Author : Christopher Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340369074
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Challenge written by Christopher Black and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Otis Adelbert Kline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788381625074
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Planet of Peril written by Otis Adelbert Kline and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sanford Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199888396
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier written by Sanford Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanford Schwartz offers a penetrating new reading of Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy. Taken together, Schwartz's readings call into question Lewis's self-styled image as a "dinosaur" out of step with the main currents of modern thought. Far from a simple struggle between an old-fashioned Christian humanism and a newfangled heresy, Lewis's Space Trilogy should be seen as the searching effort of a modern religious apologist to sustain and enrich the former through critical engagement with the latter.

Author : Edmond Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575133406
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planets in Peril written by Edmond Hamilton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the first arrivals from the other side of the cosmos. With the help of the Martian scientist Thrin, they had crossed the whirling black abyss of the fourth dimension - a dimension that had never been reached before! Now a man with skin of pure marble-white and a woman of unearthly beauty stood before the disbelieving eyes of Captain Future and the Futuremen. The strange couple stared back in awe and amazement - particularly at Captain Future. "Here is the one," the man said finally in his alien tongue. "He is the only one who can save us!"

Author : Johnson, Elizabeth A.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608337324
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creation and the Cross written by Johnson, Elizabeth A. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Butterworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780855234119
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planets of Peril written by Michael Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David C. Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830832842
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Region of Awe written by David C. Downing and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David C. Downing explores mysticism as a part of C. S. Lewis's faith and writing. He addresses both the influence on Lewis by mystical writers of his own day and the threads of mysticism evident in Lewis's works.

Author : David C. Downing
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787997900
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Wardrobe written by David C. Downing and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the early 1950s, C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children's classics and have been hailed in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature as "the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author." But how could Lewis (a formidable critic, scholar, and Christian apologist)conjure up the kind of adventures in which generations of children (and adults) take such delight? In this engaging and insightful book, C. S. Lewis expert David C. Downing invites readers to join his vivid exploration of the Chronicles of Narnia, offering a detailed look at the enchanting stories themselves and also focusing on the extraordinary intellect and imagination of the man behind the Wardrobe. Downing presents each Narnia book as its own little wardrobe - each tale an opportunity to discover a visionary world of bustling vitality, sparkling beauty, and spiritual clarity. And Downing's examination of C. S. Lewis's personal life shows how the content of these classic children's books reflects Lewis's love of wonder and story, his affection for animals and homespun things, his shrewd observations about human nature, along with his vast reading, robust humor, theological speculations, medieval scholarship, and arcane linguistic jokes. A fun glossary of odd and invented words will allow readers to speak with Narnian flair, regaling friends and family with unusual words like cantrips, poltoonery, hastilude, and skirling. A masterful work that will appeal to both new and seasoned fans of Narnia, Into the Wardrobe offers a journey beyond Narnia's deceptively simple surface and into its richly textured and unexpected depths.

Author : Christopher Black
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 9780440468929
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planets in Peril written by Christopher Black and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction.