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Subject: Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:59:55 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> 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
>>>
>>> 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/
>>=20
>> I have read "Inferno", several decades ago.
>>=20
>> How about the opposite, Heaven ?
>>=20
>> I advise reading "The World of the End" by Ofir Touch=E9 Gafla for a =
truly=20
>> strange story.
>>  =A0=A0 =
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.

I'm not sure it is a Narnian Heaven. Although it is entered from
Narnia, I've always thought of it as just "Heaven", reachable from
anywhere (by those who do reach it).
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"