Perelandra

I did not like this book as much as Out of a Silent Planet. The World building and imagination is incredible. I still struggled to connect with the characters or to care about their situation. It reads more like a mythological story. I have conflicted feelings about the prevention of the fall of man. It's sort of a story about what would have happened if Adam and Eve would never have been kicked out of the garden of Eden this is not an easy question and bears some reflecting.

This book was almost the reverse of Out of the Silent Planet for me, in which the beginning was dark but the book as a whole was not. In Perelandra, it starts off pretty quietly, with Ransom essentially being supernaturally transported (no actual space travel involved this time) to Perelandra, or Venus, and then about a third of the way through the book, something evil arrives. I personally find this kind of evil, the conniving and sinister type, to be the most disturbing and haunting. But although set in another planet, with wonderfully imaginative world-building, this book is ultimately an exploration of theology. I can't exactly say that I enjoyed the book, but it was intriguing and well done.