Quick review: Voyage to venus (Perelandra)

...by CS Lewis

I had forgotten just how theological this novel is.  Out of the Silent Planet is a SF adventure with a good deal of theological underpinning - but to some extent I could see Hollywood filming it with much of the theology removed.  I think that would be impossible with this book.  It is a deeply theological adventure.  Which makes it less of a page-turner perhaps than its predecessor, but the ideas it explores and the conclusions formed, touch at a deep level.

I remember it as the book that (several decades ago) helped me understand the Fall, but there's a whole lot more going on than that.  Here are explorations of angels, satan, mission, redemption, the nature of God...

There is a subtle similarity/difference between this and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: in that, later, story CSL imagines what would happen if salvation had to be wrought in a world which is peopled by and run along the lines of a mythological creation.  In Perelandra the question is more: what happens if God continues to create life in the universe post-Earth-Fall, and post-incarnation?

All very interesting....

And what is happening to Ransom?  That Hideous Strength  next year perhaps, and hopefully for the first time in its unabridged version.