The Space Trilogy · Book 2
Perelandra
- Published
- 1 January 1943
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN-13
- 9780007157167
- Type
- novel
About this book
Perelandra followed five years later, in 1943, at 288 pages, sending Ransom to a young, unfallen Venus to stop a temptation from replaying humanity's fall on a second world.
Its place in The Space Trilogy
Perelandra is book 2 in the The Space Trilogy series. It follows Out of the Silent Planet. It is followed by That Hideous Strength. See the full The Space Trilogy reading order.
Before he became Narnia's creator, C. S. Lewis spent the years around the Second World War writing a very different kind of fantasy: three novels that take Christian theology into outer space. Out of the Silent Planet (1938) begins the trilogy by kidnapping Cambridge philologist Elwin Ransom and hauling him to Mars aboard a stolen spacecraft, where he discovers a world of three sentient species living in harmony under a guardian angelic intelligence -- and learns that Earth alone, among the planets, has fallen…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007157167