Which C.S. Lewis novel features the fictional land of Perelandra?

Perelandra is the C.S. Lewis novel that features the fictional land and planet of Perelandra.

Published in 1943, the novel is the second book in Lewis’s Space Trilogy. Elwin Ransom travels to Perelandra, a world that readers commonly identify with Venus, where he encounters a newly created society facing a moral crisis.

The story develops the trilogy’s interest in planetary mythology, language, temptation, and the consequences of moral choice. Ransom’s journey continues the role he began in Out of the Silent Planet, but the setting and central conflict are different.

The trilogy concludes with That Hideous Strength, published in 1945. Because Lewis’s planet names are fictional and the books combine science fiction with theology, readers sometimes confuse Perelandra with Malacandra, the Mars-like world in the first novel.