The title of this book refers to Earth, or rather, what journey would lie ahead if I left it for another planet. With a question that countless authors have answered, I found myself drawn to one of the first modern authors to take this idea seriously, C.S. Lewis.
It felt a lot like a fantasy story, even "mixing" the genres better than most have attempted. Starting with a fascinating idea of space travel with the knowledge of astronomy at the time, you're quickly drawn into a whole new world of new life forms of every kind; a perfect premise for the author best known for The Chronicles of Narnia.
With everything else I've read of this author, I found this book very easy to read (with an occasional trip to the dictionary), yet by no means did I feel it left out even any little thought about the thoughts and views that Ransom, the man from Earth who found himself living there, had gathered from his experiences.
Taking into account the way the tree's might grow on a world lighter than ours seemed fun enough to discover, but trying to imagine the description of how water would ripple in little towers across the surface of a lake was an unexpected wonder I've never considered.
This book was a fun book to read for someone interested in early science fiction novels as myself, or a science fiction novel that doesn't throw engineering algorithms at you on every page. Either way, read it.
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