Ransom tries to worry about his fate on Malacandra, but can’t help but spend the journey in awe of the bright vitality of the heavens – he can’t bring himself to call this expanse “space” now that he has seen how beautiful it is. He overhears Weston and Devine say that they have kidnapped him to be a sacrifice to a mysterious people called the sorns on a planet called Malacandra. When he wakes, Ransom finds himself in a spaceship. The drink turns out to be drugged, and Ransom has a strange dream of meeting aliens while under its influence. Ransom convinces Weston and Devine to let the boy go home and goes into Weston’s house for a drink. Devine, struggling to capture a young boy. The gate is locked, but Ransom hears a commotion and sneaks in through a hedge. Ransom looks for a place to stay for the night, eventually coming to a large estate.
Elwin Ransom walking through the English countryside during a year off from his work as a professor of language at Cambridge University.
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