The 'eldil' on Malacandra are what we would call angels and Oyarsa, a key character in the latter part of the book, is the arch-angel of Malacandra. believing that population cleansing and killing off another planet's inhabitants to make room for humans is the right thing to do), but that is clearly pointed out and shown to be wrong. One of the antagonists has rather skewed views as to what is moral (i.e. He and his captors, Weston and Devine, land on the planet Malacandra (which we later learn is the inhabitants' name for Mars), where Ransom unwittingly learns that he is to be delivered to the natives, presumably as a human sacrifice to their gods. Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge don, is abducted while trying to perform a good deed, and is taken as a hostage on a journey through space. An excellent read with some alcohol content and profanity used by antagonists.ĭr.
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