![]() Of course things are different now that God has become a man and died to redeem one race that succumbed to the Tempter’s voice. ![]() And the Tempter, who now possesses Weston’s body, has arrived in another spaceship to tempt the mother of all Perelandra to do what Maleldil (i.e., God) has forbidden. This time the First Couple are green people living on a planet covered with oceans and roofed with clouds, carpeted with floating islands and (here and there) a forbidden, fixed island. Perelandra, to head off an attempt by the ancient Serpent to tempt yet another Eve. In the second book of the Space Trilogy, the Ultimate Evil– the Bent One, the “fairest and fallen” prince of our world– makes his appearance. Lewis are not so far apart, in depicting a diseased, amoral flight from death as nearly the ultimate evil.īut not quite the ultimate evil. ![]() Maybe it would be more accurate to say that Weston’s philosophy would make the entire human race one big, pulsating, hydra-headed Voldemort, willing to trade in the lives of other creatures to prolong its own existence, and to spoil innocent worlds in a futile race against eternity. The Voldemort-like physicist Weston kidnaps him and takes him to Mars, a.k.a. Elwin Ransom, a British philologist who, on the eve of World War II, gets swept into an interplanetary adventure. ![]() In Out of the Silent Planet, we first became acquainted with Dr. ![]()
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