Perelandra is the 1943 C.S. Lewis novel set mainly on the planet Perelandra, also called Venus.
The novel is the second book in Lewis’s Space Trilogy and follows Elwin Ransom after the events of Out of the Silent Planet. Ransom travels to Perelandra, a young world whose inhabitants face a temptation that echoes the biblical story of humanity’s fall.
Lewis does not present the planet as a simple scientific travel destination. He uses its unusual geography, including floating islands and an ocean-dominated environment, to imagine how moral and religious questions might unfold in a different world. The narrative combines adventure, symbolism, and theological speculation.
The final volume, That Hideous Strength, returns to Earth and changes tone and setting. Readers sometimes identify the trilogy by modern planetary names, but Lewis’s fictional names—Malacandra for Mars and Perelandra for Venus—are central to the books’ imaginative worlds.