C.S. Lewis’s novel Perelandra is set on a fictional version of Venus.
Perelandra, published in 1943, is the second volume of Lewis’s Space Trilogy, also known as the Ransom Trilogy. The story follows Elwin Ransom after he travels to Perelandra, where he encounters a newly created world and a moral conflict involving temptation and obedience.
Lewis imagined Perelandra as a lush, ocean-dominated planet rather than a realistic depiction of the Venus known to modern astronomy. Its floating islands and distinctive geography serve the novel’s theological and symbolic purposes.
The title can cause confusion because Perelandra is both the name used for the world in the novel and the book’s title. The planet is associated with Venus, while the trilogy also visits Mars in Out of the Silent Planet and a future solar system in That Hideous Strength.