Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation

On 8/20/2024 7:59 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 8/20/2024 3:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/20/2024 9:12 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation
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Hell gets a bad rap--it's certainly a great motivator for any number
of plots and characters attempting to escape from the fiery flames
of perdition!
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https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-about-hell-and-damnation/

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I have read "Inferno", several decades ago.
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How about the opposite, Heaven ?
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I advise reading "The World of the End" by Ofir Touché Gafla for a truly strange story.
    https://www.amazon.com/World-End-Ofir-Touch%C3%A9-Gafla/ dp/0765333570/

 Aside from Dante's 'Paradiso' (by far the dullest of his Afterlife
Trilogy), I can't think of too many examples outside of the dreck
you'll find in Christian bookstores (if there's any *good* ones, let
us know).
 There's Twain's 'Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven', written after
he'd lost his faith in a just God.
 Heinlein's 'Job: A Comedy of Justice' has some brief scenes.
 'What Dreams May Come' by Richard Matheson, later made into a film
with a very non-clown-mode Robin Williams.
 I'm told CS Lewis's 'The Great Divorce' may count.
Of course, the final Narnia book has scenes in a Narnian Heaven.
 pt

The book of Revelation in the Bible is counted as SF by some people.  It is truly unnerving.  And by some accounts has already passed when Rome destroyed Jerusalem somewhere around AD 70.  Others do not think that this is what the book is about.
Lynn