What is the name of the planet visited in C.S. Lewis’s novel Perelandra?

Perelandra is the name of the planet visited in C.S. Lewis’s novel Perelandra. The book was published in 1943 and is the second volume of Lewis’s Space Trilogy.

The story again follows Dr. Elwin Ransom, who travels from Earth to Perelandra. In Lewis’s fictional planetary vocabulary, Earth is Thulcandra, the silent planet, while Mars is Malacandra. Perelandra is associated with Venus and is presented as a young world facing a decisive moral test.

The novel’s setting is not simply a version of the real planet Venus. Lewis creates a fantastical world of floating islands, ocean, and unusual natural laws. Its central conflict concerns obedience, temptation, and the possibility of an unfallen civilization.

Readers sometimes answer Malacandra because that is the alien planet in Out of the Silent Planet, the trilogy’s first book. Perelandra is the distinct world of the second volume.