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''Out of the Silent Planet'' is a science fiction novel by the British author C. S. Lewis, published in 1938 by John Lane, The Bodley Head.〔 Five years later it was published in the U.S. (MacMillan, 1943). Two sequels were published in 1943 and 1945, completing the so-called Cosmic Trilogy or Space Trilogy.〔 The fragment of another sequel, evidently set prior to ''Perelandra'' and ''That Hideous Strength'', was published as "The Dark Tower" in a 1977 collection of short fiction by Lewis (deceased 1963) and essays by four others, ''The Dark Tower and Other Stories'' (Collins, ISBN 0-00-222155-1) ==Origins== The trilogy was inspired and influenced by David Lindsay's ''A Voyage to Arcturus'' (1920).〔http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=882〕 According to biographer A. N. Wilson, Lewis wrote the novel after a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien in which both men lamented the state of contemporary fiction. They agreed that Lewis would write a space-travel story, and Tolkien would write a time-travel one. Tolkien's story only exists as a fragment, published in ''The Lost Road and other writings'' (1987) edited by his son Christopher. A "NOTE" precedes the text of the story: "Certain slighting references to earlier stories of this type which will be found in the following pages have been put there for purely dramatic purposes. The author would be sorry if any reader supposed he was too stupid to have enjoyed Mr. H. G. Wells's fantasies or too ungrateful to acknowledge his debt to them." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Out of the Silent Planet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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