The first novel in C.S. Lewis¿s classic sci-fi trilogy which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who is kidnapped and transported to MarsIn the first novel of C.S. Lewis''s classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, 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¿