Perelandra is C.S. Lewis’s novel about Venus, presented as a Christian allegory within his Space Trilogy. It was published in 1943 and is the trilogy’s second volume.
The story returns to Elwin Ransom, who travels to Perelandra, Lewis’s fictional name for Venus. There he encounters a newly created world of floating islands, a Green Lady, and the tempter Weston, whose role echoes the biblical account of temptation and the Fall.
Out of the Silent Planet, published in 1938, takes place mainly on Mars and begins the trilogy. That Hideous Strength, published in 1945, returns to Earth and shifts toward a critique of technocratic power, social engineering, and the misuse of science. The three novels share Ransom and broad theological concerns, but each uses a different planetary setting and narrative structure.
The Great Divorce is not science fiction about Venus; it is a 1945 theological fantasy involving a bus journey from a gray afterlife.