Out of the Silent Planet, Part 3

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Sophie Burkhardt joins the show today to discuss the final third of C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet. Among other things, we discuss:

• Why it doesn't snow in Malacandra
• The many ways in which humans are humbled in this book
• Renaissance, Scholastic and...Einsteinian ideas about angels' bodies
• Lewis and Resurrection Bodies
• Three types of humans and three types of Malacandrians
• Were the birds hnau?
• Organization of labor (or if you like, organisation of labour) on Malacandra
• H.G. Wells' The First Men In the Moon and The Door in the Wall
• J.B.S. Haldane's (actually pretty well-informed) critique of the Ransom Trilogy
• Are the Malacandrians living in a communist utopia?
• The inherent absurdity and dignity of all creatures
• Goofy questions include:
  • Are you a sorn, a pfiffltriggi, or a hross? Take our personality quiz and find out! (Not really)
  • Prompt: Rewrite a myth or Bible story, but set it against the backdrop of Lewis' cosmology.

Next Tuesday, I'll be talking to Dr. David C. Downing, who wrote the first seriously scholarly work on Lewis' Ransom Trilogy (which is quite readable).

Thanks to Sophie for joining me!  Please check out her podcast, Beneath the Willow Tree!

In a few days, join us for a bonus episode, where I will interview Kay Ben-Avraham, who has written (and is writing) a book about dryads called The Flower of the Cedar. This is the first of a few interviews I'll be having with authors publishing through Signum University Press.