It was something more than a prudent desire to avoid creatures alien in kind, very powerful, and very intelligent. The book is worth reading to gain a new appreciation of what Heaven might be like, what humanity lost in the Fall in the Garden of Eden, and how a being with free will (like us) can be tempted to evil.“I am not sure whether I can make you understand it. Ransom is then brought back to earth by the same arch-angel who carried him to Perelandra. Tinidril meets the Adam of that world and together they assume their reign over the planet. During the battle Tinidril decides to continue her walk with God, and Perelandra is saved from evil. He does so, and kills Weston after a long hand-to-hand battle. Ultimately he realizes that he must prevent the temptations from continuing by physically attacking Weston so that Tinidril has some time and space to reflect and respond to the choice being offered her.

Ransom realizes what is going on and tries to counter Weston’s arguments. He begins to tempt her to prove that she has free will by disobeying God. She begins to learn from Ransom, but shortly after they meet Weston arrives on the scene. She walks completely with God and has free will, although she does not know it. Ransom soon meets the Eve of that world, who is named Tinidril and is also called The Green Lady. Ransom is brought to Perelandra by a mighty spirit, and arch-angel, that he met on Mars but is not told what he is expected to do there. The story is a fascinating study of how free will and temptation work. Lewis begins by describing the paradise that exists and then tells how evil tries to corrupt this new world. Essentially the story is a re-telling of what happened in the first chapters of Genesis in the Garden of Eden. In this story as told by Lewis Perelandra is a paradise, an unfallen world that knows no evil. However, the story takes place on Venus (called Perelandra in this novel) not Mars. The protagonist is the same, Elwin Ransom, a professor of philology, and one of the same villains (Weston, the physicist) reappears. It continues the story that began in Out of the Silent Planet.

Many reviewers consider this the best of the three books, and some say that it is one of the top three books written by Lewis.

This podcast covers Perelandra, the second book in the Space Trilogy by C.

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis