Ransom makes one simple choice on his solo walking voyage to seek stay in a certain home. What he finds there is a distressed mother who's mentally ill son hasn't returned from work. After promising to bring her son home, he heads off the where the young man works for a professor at his home hoping to also find a place to lodge for the night. He finds a struggle at the professor's home and stops a fight with unknown cause between the women's son, the professor Weston, and one of his old school mates that he never liked Devine. After letting the boy go home, Weston and Devine allow Ransom to lodge at their mansion. But when Devine and Ransom sit down for a drink, Ransom loses consciousness after taking a poisoned drink. He wakes up inside of a space ship on his way to a planet called Malacandra where he is to be sacrificed to the natives of the planets. What happens on the planet of Malacandra was the last thing Ransom expected to. After an escape from his captors he sets off on an adventure that leads him to inhabitants of the planets that are rational beings, learns their language, and becomes the only person to know of and understand the hnau (rational species) on Malacandra.
-Pages: 264
-Age: 13 and up (no inappropriate content, some topics better understood by more mature people)
-Reader Type: Science Fiction, Action
-Our Rating: This was an amazing book! It really gave you a different view on how society works and opens your mind to different ideas. It was a very enlightening book. It's one of those books that when you're done it has changed the way you think and leaves you satisfied.
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