kind of you to send me Mr Groom’s remarks on Perelandra,” Lewis wrote in a private letter.
What might have happened, after all, if either Eve or Adam had resisted the temptations of the devil? What might have happened had there been an advocate for God’s position in the great cosmic struggle for the soul? Lewis’s brilliant Space Trilogy, Perelandra, our beloved Cambridge philologist and hero, Elwin Ransom, travels to Perelandra (Venus) and struggles to prevent a repetition of the Fall in the Garden of Eden as it had happened, tragically, in our world. In it, the author ably blends science fiction and theology, giving us a gripping thriller, steeped in thought, adventure, and myth. Lewis’s “Perelandra”-arguably the least read and least remembered part of his “Space Trilogy”-is nothing short of a masterpiece. It would be no exaggeration to claim that C.S.
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