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Dr. Ransom, Cambridge philologist, sets out on a walking tour on which he ecnounters two old school acquaintances. Unexpectedly, they drugh and abduct him to Mars-or Malacandra, as its inhabitants call it. There he discovers a world of strange and sometimes horrifying adventure and looks back at the antics of worldlings with Malacandran detachment and irony.