Más allá del planeta silencioso: Libro 1 de La trilogía cósmica

Escrito por C.S. Lewis

Narrado por Pepe Mendoza

Más allá del planeta silencioso es la primera novela de la clásica trilogía de ciencia ficción de C. S. Lewis. Cuenta la aventura del Dr. Ransom, un académico de Cambridge, que es secuestrado y llevado en una nave espacial al planeta rojo de Malacandra, que él conoce como Marte. Sus captores planean saquear los tesoros del planeta y ofrecer a Ransom como sacrificio a las criaturas que viven allí. Ransom descubre que viene del «planeta silencioso», la Tierra, cuya trágica historia es conocida en todo el universo.

Out of the Silent Planet

Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel in C. S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy. It tells the adventure of Dr. Ransom, a Cambridge academic, who is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the "silent planet"—Earth—whose tragic story is known throughout the universe!

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Grupo Nelson
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 12 abr 2022
• ISBN: 9781400311279

C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeñó hasta que se jubiló. Sus contribuciones a la crítica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantástica y teología popular le trajeron fama y aclamación a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribió más de treinta libros, lo cual le permitió alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aún atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada año. Sus más distinguidas y populares obras incluyen Las Crónicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo.

Comentarios para Más allá del planeta silencioso

[Isaac · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Extraordinaria forma de la tratar de explicar mediante esta aventura de ficción algunas de las preguntas más difíciles a las que nos enfrentamos, aquí en el planeta silencioso! Crack C.S. Lewis

[Elkin Useche · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Es un Excel libro para meditar acerca de qué somos como humanos. Qué nos diferencia de otras especies.

[Mercado Ivonne · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Una maravillosa narrativa y el detalle en cada descripción, es como si estuviera allí en Malacandra. Genial !!

[Sol · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Hermoso libro y la narración impecable. Es una historia muy entretenida para relajarse e imaginar todos los detalles

[kslade-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Kind of strange Sci-Fi I read a long time ago. I need to read again.

[hobbitprincess · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

C.S. Lewis wrote the Space Trilogy, and this is the first of the books. I don't normally like science fiction, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Lewis creates an interesting planet that is explored by the main character, Ransom. He meets some interesting creatures and learns about his outlook on life and others as a result. He is sent into space by Weston, who appears in the second book also. He is not a pleasant character and will play a larger role in the next book.

[agentx216 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A nice early sci-fi piece by Lewis. While not dramatically hard sci-fi, Lewis' ability to include alien creatures in his writing style is similar and different to his Narnia series. It's a quick read with, of course, Christian undertones, that are continued to the rest of the trilogy. Lewis' human characters are archetypes and his alien creatures are really fun to get to know. Worth the read. Final Grade - B

[matke-261098 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Oh dear.Unlike many other readers, I loved the descriptions of Malacandra’s flora and fauna. They’re weird and wonderful. I also liked the interaction between Ransom and the Malacandrans. But…heavy-handed allegory and lots of preaching can get tedious. It’s really too bad that Lewis and E. R. Burroughs couldn’t have collaborated on books about Mars: Lewis for the writing and Burroughs for the exciting plotting.

[electrascaife · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A British academic on a walking tour of the countryside (can you tell you're in a CS Lewis novel yet?) gets abducted by two other British academic types and taken in their spaceship (yeah, you read that right) to what turns out to be Mars because they think the Martians want a human sacrifice so that they (the British (and apparently evil) academic types) want the Martian gold. Walking Tour Brit escapes the Evil Brits and essentially carries on with his walking tour, just now on another planet. Then things get philosophical and somewhere in there he (Lewis) posits that angels are maybe actually see-through aliens. So yeah, it's a bit of a wild ride, and Lewis's ideas about what space is really like are honest-to-goodness hilarious, but overall I think the best description I can come up with is that it's a clunky predecessor to Mary Doria Russell's *much* more sophisticated and eloquently written The Sparrow. So, read this one for a laugh and go to Russell for the better, meatier stuff.

[librolindsay · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I remember reading this in middle school by recommendation of my mother since I loved the Narnia books. I remember being toally lost as I diligently trudged through this. That's about it.

[bookwyrmm_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Great world-building but rather slow, and being Lewis, there is some definite allegory.

[mrslee_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I first read this back in the early 1980s, but in reading it again, I find that I have NO memory of the details. My "memories" of the first reading made me give it a five star rating, but upon this reading I can only come up with three and a half.I was impatient with the descriptions of the planet; I couldn't see them in my mind, and what I did see was not appealing to me. Also there seemed to be a lot of pontificating. I did enjoy the interactions between Ransom & denizens of Malacandra. Rather an abrupt ending; did C.S. Lewis have a deadline?I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys the early scifi, although the science of it is less a focus than the moral implications of the theory that humankind can conquer all and has the right to.

[drfuriosa · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This was a strange and interesting little book. Lewis touches on issues of language and understanding. He is (very) gently critical of colonialism and religious proselytism, but I bet it was probably a very liberal view for his day. Worth the read.

[jzacsh-533759 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Stopped 1/3 the way through. Can't take any more of this book. Old sci-fi... Sometimes it's just too unrelatable for me to enjoy, despite being an obsessive sci-fi reader.

[james.d.gifford · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I first read this in grade 8, and I loved it. I went back years later, and it's still great fun, but Lewis makes me want more from it. He's broad in his scope, and the book has some fairly clear allegorical expansions, yet it's still one of those books that's good enough to make me wish it was better...

[authorjanebnight · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Synopsis: Ransom is kidnapped and taken to another planet where he is to be given to the aliens who inhabit it, presumably as a sacrifice to their primitive Gods. Ransom escapes his captives and explores the planet. My Rating:3/5I didn't enjoy this book but I felt it was well written. C S Lewis is a great author and his stories are creative. This one just wasn't for me. This book was extremely slow and detailed about things such as the flora and fauna of the planet. I was bored through much of that though once Ransom starts interacting with the aliens I was engaged. I liked the parts of the book where he was interacting with the aliens and learning about their culture. The rest of this book was extremely descriptive which just isn't engaging for me. Lewis clearly had done research and it was clear that Ransom is an educated character who has a background in science. For the time this was written C S Lewis got a surprising amount right about space travel and science stuff (as far as I can tell).This plot was interesting and could have been really awesome if the book had moved faster and had more going on. This book feels more like a travelogue of the planet than a story. If you loved Narnia this probably isn't for you. I loved the story of Narnia though so much about it was sparse. There was enough content to make the book interesting and entertaining but not to drag. On the other hand, if you really like books that explore strange settings this book might be right up your alley. It wasn't for me but my brother, who I buddy read with, loved it. He will be continuing on with the series though I don't think I will.

[bell7_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Stumbling upon his old schoolmate Devine and a physicist named Weston, Ransom is brought along on a voyage to Mars - or, as the natives call it, Malacandra - in this examination of first contact and humanity.I first read this book probably when I was college age, before I started keeping track of my reading and reviewing every book. I remember my mom telling me that she hadn't liked the trilogy much, but liking it pretty well overall. I picked it up again having recently read Mere Humanity, an exploration by professor Donald T. Williams in the ways what it means to be human is explored in primarily C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien's works. So I confess on this reread, I was paying particular attention to what it means to be human or a moral, rational species even if inhuman. Not a lot happens in terms of plot, but it does delve into what it might mean if there is intelligent life elsewhere from a Christian worldview, that perhaps hasn't been "bent" to evil as humans are. Though it could stand on its own, I think it ends up laying a lot of the groundwork further explored in Perelandra and That Hideous Strength.

[al9g · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This one gets high marks from most people and perhaps I expected too much from it, but wasn't thrilled with it. I like C.S. Lewis - whether non-fiction, theology or fiction = but this one didn't grab me. This one is earlier than the Narnia series and perhaps not as overtly theological, but perhaps also not as engaging as Narnia. The story is intriguing, but is mostly narrative with little dialogue. It's not a bad read, but wasn't what I expected.

[minaisham · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

-- OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET is author's first book in a space trilogy. Protagonist is fictional philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. In SILENT PLANET author travels unwillingly to Malacandra or Mars. In the trilogy Earth is referred to as Thulcandra. --

[empress8411 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I haven't read this in years, but it is actually just as a remember. More philosophy than adventure, it takes the reader through a world were sin doesn't exsist. It is an interesting idea. Not for the reader looking for action, but if you enjoy thought-provoking works, read it.

[dylanwolters · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

My rating isn't in regards to writing style or anything along those lines, but purely story. Lewis' writing is well and understandable. The story, however, I felt generally uneventful. I expected a good development and pacing but the novel as a whole was just bland. When you finally get the revelation where the author more directly explains everything you realize what it all was. Another metaphor about then-society and its relation to God. Now I understand this is C.S. Lewis and that's his thing. But I had been told by so many people that it wasn't like Narnia. It had more depth and something beyond that. So perhaps I was misled by the people I discussed the novel with earlier. The one star rating from me is primarily regarding the growing lack of interest I felt as the novel went on. I was never put off, per say. But it's hard to explain. Either way I don't think its a terrible adventure. Many parts of it are very creative and fun to read and think about. As such I also think this book may very well be someone else's cup of tea. So, honestly, unless you're like me and want more than a metaphorical adventure regarding mankind and God, I'd take a look.

[tromboneal-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Good, but too old-fashioned and slow. If I were on a deserted island with no other books read, I'd enjoy it.

[tootstorm · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

The Chronicles of Narnia, outside of the Last Battle, never quite sacrifices its plot for religious didacticism. Despite my own atheism, I adore the Narnia series as one of the most important pieces of my childhood. Out of the Silent Planet is, unfortunately, more on par with the Last Battle than with the rest of the Narnia series: Its plot nonexistent next to its dated, shallow, stupid, and hateful didacticism. Out of the Silent Planet, the first of Lewis' Space Trilogy, has a lot in common with Dante's Paradiso. In place of a plot, we get a walking tour of a 'perfect' Mars as imagined in 1938 by someone completely ignorant of even 1930s science. Mars is a paradise inhabited by different races, all of which are variants on the noble savage stereotype, living in harmony with nature and each other. It's Man, storming out from the Silent Planet -- Earth -- that throws the noble balance of Mars into disarray. Two scientists -- this story absolutely vilifies scientists as murderous, selfish monsters, literally looking to steal technology for the purpose of getting away with murder more easily -- kidnap a professor Elwin Ransom, currently on sabbatical and, reportedly, based on Lewis' close friend, J.R.R. Tolkien, to offer as an ignorant sacrifice to the Martians. They fly to Mars in their private spaceship imagined, again, by 1930s ignorance (i.e., it's incredibly stupid), only to have Ransom escape their clutches and spend months living in harmony with different Martian species, learning of their simple, perfect, harmonious life and how he can share that wisdom with the rest of humanity.In this world, the different planets are paradises untouched by Eve's (woman's) mistakes; they all look at humanity as cut off, or 'silent,' by its own evil, locked in a struggle with the devil to return to its noble roots and rejoin the paradises among the stars.The walking tour among the different alien species doesn't form a coherent plot in its brief ~170 pages, but instead provides a stepped series of teachable moments, of different methods of Christian wisdom to influence the reader and, through them, the rest of humanity. None of the characters have identifiable personalities: Ransom is a blank slate open to learning new things -- his dialogue can just be replaced by 'Wow' and 'Oh, interesting,' and you'd never notice a difference -- while both scientists are pure, unadulterated evil, and all alien species are perfect, caring, kind noble savages.It's dumb as fuck and I hate it.While this novel isn't, on the merits of its writing and story, a bottom-of-the-barrel piece of shit, it's that condescending didacticism that drags the negatives of Lewis' writing down towards worthlessness. Out of the Silent Planet, and, I presume (based on reviews and summaries), the rest of the Space Trilogy, speak to a niche audience, an audience interested in re-affirming their religious beliefs in place of telling a story worth a damn, of having shitty morals -- for Lewis' Christian morals get downright vile, especially when it comes to the worth of women and minorities -- rationalized. If you're not in this audience, stay the fuck away.I have no plans of continuing this 'classic' series.

[kateprice88 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Nearly everyone has read C.S. Lewis’s iconic series The Chronicles of Narnia. Despite Lewis being a fairly prolific author in his time, I’ve never read anything else by him, living in the delusion that there really wasn’t much more that he’s written, or, perhaps, anything worth reading. Recently, I stumbled upon the first and third books in his science fiction series at a used book sale. Out of the Silent Planet is a short but dense book that is absolutely worth reading.The main character of Out of the Silent Planet is Dr. Ransom, an academic who begins a walking tour of England and is searching for a place to stay the night when the story opens. Things quickly go downhill for him when he is kidnapped by a mysterious, aging physicist and brought to a planet called Malacandra. But Dr. Ransom isn’t too keen on being a human sacrifice and escapes into the wilds of this unknown world, his chances of ever making it home becoming slimmer and slimmer.Like Lewis's more famous series, this, too, is steeped in allegory, not all of which I am convinced I recognized. Despite just finishing this novel, I feel like I should reread it. More than that, I want to. Some of the allegory is hard to miss. But even then, I feel as if it were crafted more finely than some of his children’s series. While I love Narnia, it can feel as if you’re being hit with an allegorical sledgehammer at times when read as an adult. Maybe it was because it was my first time reading the book, but I felt that wasn’t always the case here.C.S. Lewis is a wonderful writer, his sentences lyrical, his descriptions near perfect. This is denser than the Chronicles of Narnia. Descriptions are more detailed, and there are more of them. The native tongue of the peoples of Malacandra is described and related in parts, but not quite to the sort of extent someone such as Tolkien goes.While I did love this novel, it is rather dense for being only 158 pages. A lot of a time is spent on Malacandra. And a lot of that time is spent with Dr. Ransom as he explores and gets to know the peoples and ways of this other world. There is forward momentum, but it can be bogged down in descriptions, beautiful and lyrical as they are. It also took me longer to read than many other novels take me, again despite the page count. While this doesn’t detract from the story in any way, it is something to keep in mind if you were looking for a quick read.Ransom beings as a likeable, but perhaps timid character. While likeable he does have his flaws. However, there is more character growth than I had initially expected. We see Ransom grow throughout the tale. The way he treats the Hross, one of the native peoples of the planet, changes. This is slight, and it takes several chapters, but it is there. Where he referred to the Hross as ‘its’ they become ‘he’s’ and ‘she’s’, real people with real lives and cultures instead of the very 19th century idea of the 'uncultured savage'. When we were first introduced to these peoples through Ransom’s eyes I was afraid the story would fall into this stereotype. It was something I really didn’t want to happen, partially because I have such fond memories of reading the Chronicles of Narnia. However, this really never happened. If anything, the opposite occurred.And the world building! Malacandra is a strange and wondrous place, at once so very unlike Earth, but pleasantly reminiscent at times as well. Its history, as much as we hear in this novel, at least, is rather fascinating. We learn a lot about the Hross, but I want to learn more about the two other races which inhabit Malacandra as well. I want more about the beginnings of the world, and the dead but still present surface world, an ever silent reminder of the horrors of the past and the fleetingness of life.The ending is rather brilliant as well. There is an epilogue, called a Postscript here, which is supposed to be part of a letter to the narrator of the story. The one or two times the narrator breaks the fourth wall begin to come into focus, and this narrator feels more like another character within the tale. There are hints of more to come, though I can’t begin to predict what would happen in the next book.Despite there being two more books in the series, the ending feels like a real conclusion. Sure, there are hints that there are more, or there could be more, but the ending is very satisfying. I would be completely happy if this were a standalone novel; it doesn’t necessarily need more. I really appreciate books like this. Too often I find books in a series just sort of stop instead of providing any real closure at the end. Also, if you are hesitant about dedicating yourself to reading yet another series, you don’t have to be. This can definitely be read as a standalone novel, and as it is the first in the series no background information or early world building will be missed.There’s something magical about discovering a ‘new’ book by an old favorite author. Out of the Silent Planet was a little dense, but a truly wonderful read. I’m definitely going to have to find a copy of Perelandra, the second book in this series. If you like C.S. Lewis’s other work, or like stories with a lot of in-depth world building, this is for you. If you don’t like heavily descriptive writing this book may not be the one for you.

[razinha-1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

This is not a full review of his book...more of a recall of some of the many other times I tried to read this book. I found the three thin paperbacks of Lewis's Space Trilogy I owned at a used bookshop in Connecticut more than 30 years ago after failing to get into the library copies when I was younger. I rediscovered them - and attempted vainly to read them - each time after packing and unpacking them through 14 moves, only to lose them in a fire in 2013. I tried more times than I can remember to read them, but never succeeded.

Just. Couldn't. Get. Into. Them...

Or, more accurately, couldn't get into this one. I finally forced myself to read it, and I discovered carrying around the negligible weight all those years was a waste. His writing is tedious, his science poor (yes, I know...1938), but really, the book doesn't even hold its own against the pulp from the era that I've read. The phrase about the devil in the details is ironic and appropriate, given all the other ... material ... Lewis wrote. He was far too preachy and obvious for an intelligent reader.

I kept the books because Lewis's trilogy is called a classic, and classic science fiction that I wanted dearly to someday read. I read and really liked the Narnia books as a child, but found them immature when reread as a teen and incredibly shallow, naive, and comically transparent as an adult. Some young fiction does okay for adults, and some, like Narnia, does not. None of Lewis's books I've read can hold up to any rational thought, so if they aren't entertaining, then they have no value. Please don't troll me with Screwtape (read it...unfortunately) or any of his other apologetic attempts...he's quite unconvincing.

It took me forty years to final power though this book. I doubt I have eighty more for the next two.

[scottcholstad · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I’ve liked and disliked several of C.S. Lewis’s works over the years and if I remember correctly, I read his space trilogy as a young boy, but remember nothing of it. So my wife picked up Out of the Silent Planet at a used bookstore for me just for the heck of it and it was an interesting read. Talk about old school sci fi, this was OLD school! Published in 1938, I believe, I had a hard time reminding myself that there was no realistic was Lewis could have known anything about spaceflight or Mars, the main locations in the novel, so it’s unbelievably dated, but it’s not really his fault.In this book, Dr. Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philology professor, is kidnapped by two greedy snobs who have a spaceship and have traveled to outer space before. Ransom is taken to a planet called Malacandra by the alien species that live there, though we later learn it is actually Mars. As Mars, it is not red and deserted and dusty. It is bright and sunny, with oceans and streams, plenty of vegetation, jungles, mountains that get increasingly colder the higher you climb, dangerous animals, and several sentient alien species. He is completely enchanted by the beautiful scenery, escapes his captors, meets these aliens who are nothing like humans in appearance or action (for the most part), learns about the origin of these species on Malacandra and Earth (the silent planet) and, ultimately, reflects on the broken nature of humanity. The climactic scene leads him to the final show down which proves to be a meeting with the angelic “god” of the planet where Ransom’s linguistic abilities allow him to act as translator for the two other humans who see Malacandra as simply a stepping stone in humanity’s ongoing greatness and evolution into the stars. We see Ransom struggling with the challenge of expressing some of the more bizarre elements of his kidnappers’ philosophies in a way that will make sense to the Malacandrians. It never really does and ultimately, it doesn’t to Ransom either.The book is short and, generally, entertaining, if a bit lightweight. It drags at times, quite a bit actually, but the dialogue can be quite good at times and the philosophies discussed are intriguing. I was worried that Lewis, a devout Christian, would go all “religious” on me, but he didn’t proselytize, for which I was grateful. I suppose, however, if one wanted religious symbolism, one could find it. Lewis was himself an academic and not a scientist at that. The thought that he could write “serious” science fiction in the 1930s is rather humorous. Nonetheless, this is a valiant effort and worth a read, especially as it’s so short. Three stars.

[stevierbrown · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The prose may feel a little dated to some 21st century ears, but in some ways that is quite nice, and who is to say that in the future we may not return to a more formal and genteel form of language.
But the important point is that the story feels real and engaging and certainly ahead of its time.
It is interesting that a lot of the author’s own philosophical and Christian perspectives are expressed in fairly subtle form throughout, but you really wouldn't expect anything else; it's there if you want to see it. But Lewis could be understated be and this is ultimately sci-fi, so if religion is not your thing and you are not looking for it, it's inclusion really won't 'spoil' your enjoyment of the book.

[karin7-11 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Dr. Ransom, philologist, is kidnapped and taken to a different planet called Malacandra by two greedy men, one who is greedy for gold and the other to take over this planet for mankind. Ransom overhears a conversation on the spaceship, so makes his escape at the first opportune moment. He is befriended by a sapient life form and begins to learn the language and culture of the hrossa until trouble ensues.

CS Lewis, unlike most scifi writers, writes from the premise that God and angels exist but that evolution doesn't, which puts a very different spin on this book as compared with books by authors such as Arthur C. Clarke.

I was somewhat ambivalent about much of this book as we know so much more about our nearby planets as compared with when this book was written. However, there were some redeeming qualities to this book despite it's lack of plausibility, such as the questions of what make us essentially sapient beings ruled by spirit beings (or even just what those beings are, so I'm giving it a 3, even though over all it is just so-so to me. At this point I don't plan to read the sequels.

[bmeredithe · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Odd but engaging - written with a higher content of knowledge than current fiction.

[jennaelf · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Without my previous experience with the essays of Owen Barfield and the context of intellectual movements at the time, I might not have enjoyed this book as thoroughly as I did. I definitely want to read it again simply to explore the philosophies that are touched upon...

That said, as a narrative, it is still an interesting and engaging story.