Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation

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
>
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!
>
https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-about-hell-and-damnation/

 I have read "Inferno", several decades ago.
 How about the opposite, Heaven ?
 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