The remainder of the story is told from Ransom's point of view, with Lewis acting as interlocutor and occasional commentator. He returns to Earth over a year later and is met by Lewis and another friend, then recounts his experiences. Ransom is transported in a casket-like vessel which is seemingly made of ice and contains only himself, unclothed, as Oyarsa tells him clothes are unnecessary on Venus. Ransom explains to Lewis that he (Ransom) is to travel to Perelandra ( Venus), where he is to counter some kind of attack - details not yet specified - to be launched by Earth's Black Archon ( Satan). Ransom summons narrator-Lewis to his country home. Philologist Elwin Ransom, some years after his return from Mars at the end of Out of the Silent Planet, receives a new mission from the Oyarsa (the angelic ruler) of Mars. Lewis, set on the planet of Perelandra, or Venus. Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C.
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