Which C.S. Lewis novel is set on the planet Perelandra?

Perelandra is the C.S. Lewis novel set on the planet Perelandra.

Published in 1943, Perelandra is the second novel in Lewis’s Space Trilogy, also known as the Ransom Trilogy. Its protagonist, Elwin Ransom, travels to the planet Perelandra, which is identified with Venus in the novel’s imaginative cosmology.

The story centers on Ransom’s encounter with a newly created world and a moral conflict involving temptation, obedience, and evil. Lewis uses the setting to explore theological and philosophical questions through science-fiction conventions.

Readers often confuse the book with Out of the Silent Planet, the trilogy’s first volume, which takes Ransom to Mars, or with That Hideous Strength, the third volume, which is set primarily on Earth. Perelandra is both the planet’s name and the title of the middle novel.