Which C.S. Lewis book tells the story of Ransom’s journey to Perelandra?

Perelandra tells the story of Elwin Ransom’s journey to the planet Perelandra in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy.

Published in 1943, the novel is the second book in the trilogy, following Out of the Silent Planet. Ransom is sent to Perelandra, also called Venus, where he encounters a newly created world and becomes involved in a spiritual and moral conflict.

The book’s setting differs from the first novel’s Mars-like Malacandra. Perelandra is dominated by ocean, with floating islands and a distinctive environment that allows Lewis to explore innocence, temptation, freedom, and obedience in a new planetary context.

That Hideous Strength, published in 1945, completes the trilogy and returns more directly to Earth. The books can be read independently, but their recurring protagonist and large philosophical concerns connect them. Perelandra is sometimes confused with the trilogy’s first or final volume because its plot has a more self-contained structure.