Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation

On 8/27/24 8:58 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:

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!
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Tad Williams’ Happy Hour in Hell (the second of his Bobby Dollar trilogy) was almost entirely set in Hell.
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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.
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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.

Aha - thanks.  I do not remember the five Merlin books super well. At the time, I was sorely disappointed that there wasn't more Corwin, and so I kind of hastily raced through them looking for Corwin and some resolutions. I should probably read them again.
Tony