There Ransom meets another species, a pfifltrigg who tells him about the beautiful houses and works of art that his people make in their native forests. The next day, carrying Ransom on his shoulder, Augray takes him across the bleak tableland and down into another river valley to Meldilorn, the island home of Oyarsa. On the way Ransom discovers that he has almost reached the limit of breathable air and has to be revived by Augray with a flask of oxygen.

Shortly after, Hyoi is shot dead by Devine and Weston as they track Ransom and Ransom is directed by the hrossa to comply with the eldil's instructions and cross the mountains to the cave of a sorn named Augray. While out hunting, Ransom and his hrossa companions are told by an eldil, an almost invisible, angelic creature, that Ransom must go to meet Oyarsa, who is ruler of the planet, and indeed that he should already have done so. Discovering that gold (known as 'sun's blood'), is plentiful on Malacandra, he discerns Devine's motive for making the voyage. After meeting a hross named Hyoi, a civilised native of a different species, Ransom becomes a guest for several weeks in Hyoi's village, where he uses his philological skills to learn the language. In his wanderings, he finds that all the lakes, streams, and rivers are warm, that gravity is significantly lower than on Earth, and that the plants and mountains are all extremely tall and thin. Soon after the three land, Ransom escapes and then runs off in terror upon first seeing the vaguely humanoid but alien sorns. Wonder and excitement relieve his anguish at being kidnapped, but he is put on his guard when he overhears his captors discussing their plans to turn him over to the inhabitants of Malacandra as a sacrifice. His abductors are Devine, a former college acquaintance, and the scientist Weston. While on a walking tour, the philologist Elwin Ransom is drugged and taken on board a spacecraft bound for a planet called Malacandra. Two sequels were published in 19, completing the Space Trilogy. Lewis, first published in 1938 by John Lane, The Bodley Head. Out of the Silent Planet is a science fiction novel by the British author C.

The ransom trilogy