Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation

On 21/08/2024 21:03, Tony Nance wrote:

On 8/20/24 10:12 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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 Lots come to mind, but many of them are already mentioned in your comments.[1] I’d forgotten about the Shaw, Anderson, and Myers[2], so yay commenters!
 Tad Williams’ Happy Hour in Hell (the second of his Bobby Dollar trilogy) was almost entirely set in Hell.
 Although my knee keeps jerking in the direction of Roger Zelazny, I don’t think he fits. Hellrides? Yes. Hell Tanner? Hell Yes. And Dilvish was banished there, too.[3] But I don’t think any of Zelazny’s works spent significant time in hell.
 Tony
[1] The Banks, Pratchett, and Liz Williams for example.
[2] Or is that more properly “Myers Myers”?
[3] Well, he was turned to stone, and his soul was banished there.

In Amber / Chaos, I think Merlin's brother
keeps a suite of hells for the purpose of
tormenting enemies, and he offers their use.
But we don't visit.