![]() ![]() ![]() He investigates, only to find exactly what he had feared: Weston has arrived in his spaceship. While there, Ransom sees a familiar round object fall from the sky and land in the ocean near the Fixed Lands. Ransom and Tinidril visit the Fixed Lands to look for the King, and it is there that the true story begins. She tells him that she and the King (named Tor) have only been given one rule from Maleldil (the Creator) – don’t sleep overnight on the Fixed Lands, the only nonfloating land that Ransom has seen on Perelandra. ![]() Her name is later revealed to be Tinidril, so I’ll use that from now on. He is whisked away shortly and arrives to find himself floating in Perelandra’s apparently planet-spanning ocean, which is peppered with floating mats of vegetation that resemble islands.Īfter pulling himself up onto one of the islands, Ransom meets the Queen of Perelandra. Perelandra picks up the story some time after the events of Out of the Silent Planet with Lewis en route to Ransom’s home on ‘business.’ He arrives to find that Ransom is preparing to leave, at the Oyarsa’srequest, for Perelandra (Venus). In short, he puts the events of Out of the Silent Planet squarely in the here and now. The genius bit of Out of the Silent Planet is at the end, when Lewis reveals to the reader that he has changed the names of the people involved in this story but that the knowing reader will still be able to recognize who the story is about. Ultimately, Weston is foiled by the ruling spirit (Oyarsa) of Mars, and he and Ransom are sent back to Earth. ![]()
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