However, Weston doesn't care that this plan may involve wiping out other intelligent life. Professor Weston develops interplanetary travel so humanity and their descendants (whatever they evolve into) could go out into the stars and survive throughout the cosmos. Weston returns in the second book, in an attempt to wreak havoc on Venus (Perelandra), the "new Eden." He is defeated by the novel's protagonist Elwin Ransom on Mars (known to its inhabitants as " Malacandra"). He first appears in Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet, the first novel in Lewis's The Space Trilogy, as an eminent physicist who has invented space travel. Professor Edward Rolles Weston is arguably one of C. ""You cannot be so small-minded as to think that the rights of an individual or of a million individuals are of the slightest importance in comparison with this."' - Weston in Out of the Silent Planet
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