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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:42:26 -0000 (UTC)
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Ted Nolan wrote:
> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> 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 Touch?? Gafla for a truly
>>strange story.
>>    https://www.amazon.com/World-End-Ofir-Touch%C3%A9-Gafla/dp/0765333570/
>>
>
> _Hell On High_ had a few scenes in Hell, but mostly North Carolina...
>
> As for heaven, we don't see much of it, but Brown's _The Angelic Angleworm_:
>
>   https://archive.org/details/Unknown_v06n05_1943-02_slpn/page/n47/mode/1up

Lewis wrote _The Great Divorce_ as counterpoint to Blake's
_Marriage of Heaven and Hell_.
    Rousseau influenced both Blake and Mary Shelley, who wrote
_Frankenstein_ as an allegory for London Enlightenment. Blake and
Shelley were polar opposites in regards to their feelings about
Enlightenment.

    In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis again employs his formidable
    talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in
    Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity
    is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is a
    starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and
    evil, grace and judgment. Lewis’s revolutionary idea is the
    discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside.
    Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis’s The Great
    Divorce will change the way we think about good and evil.

Danke,

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