C.S. Lewis used the name Perelandra for Venus in his science-fiction trilogy.
Perelandra is both the local name for Venus and the title of the second novel in Lewis’s Space Trilogy. Published in 1943, it returns to Elwin Ransom, who travels to the planet and becomes involved in a struggle over innocence, temptation, and obedience.
The trilogy’s invented planetary names are part of its distinctive vocabulary. Malacandra is Mars, the setting of Out of the Silent Planet, while Perelandra is Venus. Thulcandra is the name used for Earth, which is described as the silent planet because of its spiritual separation.
Perelandra is sometimes remembered simply as Voyage to Venus, a title used in some contexts, but Perelandra is the standard title of Lewis’s novel and the canonical planetary name. The third book, That Hideous Strength, brings the story back to Earth and shifts toward a modern institutional setting.