In the first novel of C.S. Lewis' 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...