Out of the Silent Planet | Related Titles
The adventures of Ransom continue in Perelandra and That Hideous Strength (1945). In the first Ransom is transported by a casket like box to Perelandra, Venus. The mythopoesis of the novel is derived from Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and the Genesis book of the Bible; however, the conclusion is Lewis's own, his creation of a tempted world which does not fall, one in which the newest hnua, emerald-colored humans, assume the rulership of their planet from its angelic Oyarsa. At the heart of the story is Ransom's terrifying battle with the dead Weston, Un-Man....
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