The festive joy's in the air, and I just got an early Christmas present--the three space trilogy books by C.S. Lewis. Having read his 7 Narnia books and The Screwtape Letters, I turned to Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength.
If you don't take your science too seriously (Venus is a bit the hot, leh) and go along with Mars as a life-rich world with three sentient races, Venus as a lush, Eden-like world, etc. they really are a fun ride through Lewis's imagination. And Perelandra ends with a battle scene that has to be the most chilling portrayal of evil and its ability to destroy a person's humanity I've ever read.
As a science student and sometime writer, I feel Lewis may be at the top of his game in vivid description, although the long stretches in which nothing much in particular happens drag into a torture to read. Just don't let that get in the way of your enjoyment of the books, and all will be well.
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