C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet: Space Trilogy #1
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( Sept. 3, 2019)
Lewis's first science fiction novel. Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is on a walking holiday in rural England, when he is abducted, to the planet of Malacandra (Mars), where he and his kidnappers encounter intelligent beings, of more than one species. Interesting events ensue, for good and for ill.