Ransom finds that Perelandra is totally unlike Malacandra or Thulcandra (Earth). The descriptions of the world on which Ransom arrives are Lewis’s most impressive imaginative achievement. The journey to Malacandra had involved a death to self that freed him from fear and prepared him for whatever challenges Perelandra has to offer. Although sometimes criticized as having a sexist view of women, Perelandra nevertheless succeeds as both science fiction and religious allegory.Įlwin Ransom, the middle-aged professor who was taken to Malacandra (Mars) in Out of the Silent Planet, is in this story transported supernaturally to Perelandra in a symbolically coffin-sized box. In a reworking of the biblical story of the temptation of Eve, Perelandra presents the scientist from Out of the Silent Planet, Edward Rolles Weston, as the tempter of the first woman on the planet Perelandra (Venus). It is a sequel to Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet (1938) and was followed in the trilogy by That Hideous Strength (1945). Lewis, published in 1943 some later editions were titled Voyage to Venus.

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Perelandra by C.S. Lewis