Can anyone help?

[Magstar]

I am desperately trying to remember the name of a book/books that I started reading some time ago. I thought the author was Asimov or Clarke but not sure now. All I can remember is that a guy was visiting several planets and the first I thought maybe was made of ice and the second had a massive ocean with massive waves and there was a devil character. These are from the older time period of the mentioned authors.

 

[royheil]

Clarke's "Childhoods End" had a devil-like character, but I don't recall visiting other planets.

 

[hitmouse]

It isn’t Childood’s End.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Clarke again in 2010: Odyssey Two
The ice-moon of Jupiter, Europa, features. There's a big ocean beneath the ice and the new sun is named Lucifer

2010: Odyssey Two - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

No big waves though, that I can recall.

 

[HareBrain]

A couple of slightly more out-there possibilities.

Series in which someone visits several planets, the second is an ocean, and there's a devil figure: The Cosmic Trilogy by CS Lewis.

The description also triggered thoughts of A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

You sure this isn't even older? Because it sounds a little like the CS Lewis space trilogy The oceans and the devil sound like the second book - Voyage to Venus aka Perelandra. The first book was set on Mars - which was cold - Out of the Silent Planet. And the third one is That Hideus Strength.

Cheers, Greg.