There is so much that could be said that it is hard to know where to begin. It is difficult to write a review about “Perelandra”. My predicament now is do I chance the third book, That Hideous Strength, or not. I appreciate that it was all very well written and deeply profound and maybe I just was not in the mood. There were long, very long, passages with Ransom debating Weston, then Weston with the Green Lady, then Ransom, Weston and the Green Lady and then even Ransom with himself. Unfortunately this was where it fell apart for me because once started he did not seem to know when to stop. This is all good providing a great story, lots of opportunity for beautiful world building and, of course, this being Lewis, a vehicle for the author to expound on his own beliefs.

Whilst there he has fought a battle with the forces of evil to save this Eden like planet from the same fall which occurred on Earth when Eve was tempted by the apple.

Perelandra features the same MC, Ransom, who has now visited and returned from Venus (Perelandra). I loved Out of the Silent Planet and rated it five stars so I was really looking forward to this second book in the trilogy. Hopefully it's not just Lewis running around screaming were all gonna die during WW2.Īlmost forgot bad science! this has a lot of it! The last in the series seems to be about the apocalypse. If you can stick through the constant lectures of the nature of good, evil, and freewill. After the extensive theological debate the action does pick up with a deadly showdown between Ransom and Weston so there's suspense. The Worldbuilding is undermined because Lewis' version of Venus is basically a watery Eden. So it's like a retailing of a retailing with side notes. but the story is very similar and Lewis' constantly eludes to that often. I stuck with it because i am apparently a masochist and determined to finish the series like i was the Narnia series knowing some entries and parts will be overly Christian and repetitive to themes I'm very familiar with. that's the interesting hook.īut soon you will realize that it's just a retailing of the garden of Eden and want to spit the hook. Ransom (fake name) to Venus to battle evil on behalf of all that is good. After breaking the fourth wall in out of the silent planet. Perelandra the second in C.S Lewis' space trilogy is mostly Christian theology in sci-fi guise.

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