Here is the second installment of Professor Ransom’s adventures in Deep Heaven and on other planets. This time –  at  the bidding of  one  of  the  great eldila and in a very different kind of space vehicle he goes to Perelandra (the planet Venus). Perelandra is invaded by the devil’s agent in the shape of an English physicist, Dr. Weston. Evil joins battle with good, represented by the Cambridge   phi­lologist, Ransom. With a shock Ransom realizes that his struggle with Weston is to be, not just a war of words, but an actual physical combat. And the outcome of this fight will determine whether Perelandra and its Queen and Lady-Mother ascend to unbroken bliss or follow  an older  world  to corruption.

Some remarkably practical and startling aspects of the fall of man, and the terror of the crucial power remaining to man, are revealed in the testing of a race not yet born and a King and Queen not fallen.

C. S. Lewis, Perelandra