The 1943 C.S. Lewis novel set in the fictional kingdom of Perelandra is titled Perelandra.
Perelandra is the second book in Lewis’s Space Trilogy, following Out of the Silent Planet and preceding That Hideous Strength. Its protagonist, Elwin Ransom, travels to the planet Perelandra, which is also called Venus. There he encounters a newly created world facing a temptation that echoes the biblical story of Eden.
The novel combines planetary romance, Christian theology, and philosophical fiction. Lewis imagines Perelandra as an oceanic world containing floating islands and a society at an early stage of development. The plot focuses less on scientific realism than on moral choice, freedom, innocence, and evil.
Readers sometimes identify the book only by its planetary setting and answer “Venus,” but Venus is the astronomical name of the planet in our solar system. Perelandra is Lewis’s fictional name for the world and the title of the novel.