C.S. Lewis’s 1943 novel about the fictional planet 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. It was published in 1943. The protagonist, Elwin Ransom, travels to Perelandra, a world also called Venus in the trilogy’s imaginative cosmology.
The novel develops Lewis’s interest in theology, temptation, planetary mythology, and the moral consequences of freedom. Its setting is not simply a conventional science-fiction planet: Lewis builds a distinctive world with floating islands, unusual natural laws, and a central conflict involving innocence and corruption.
The trilogy’s titles are easy to mix up because each belongs to the same continuous sequence. Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel, while That Hideous Strength is the third. Perelandra is both the title of the middle volume and the name of its principal world.