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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation
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In article <vat9ea$k24v$2@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>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
>>>>
>>>> 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/
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>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
>

IIRC we put several scenes in Hell in _Hell On High_.  I think I worked
Maxwell's demons into it.
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