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Out of the Silent Planet: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Useful background to and critical studies of Out of the Silent Planet are provided in David C. Downing, Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (1992); and Sanford Schwartz, C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy (2009).

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Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "Out of the Silent Planet". Sep 26, 2018
Article thoroughly revised. Apr 02, 2014
New bibliography added. Mar 06, 2014
New article added. Jun 29, 2011
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