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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:44:30 -0400
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On 8/21/2024 6:39 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 8/21/24 12:17, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> On 8/21/2024 2:48 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> On 8/21/24 05:21, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>> On 8/21/2024 12:35 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>>> On 8/20/24 21:07, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/20/2024 7:59 PM, Cryptoengineer 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/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have read "Inferno", several decades ago.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How about the opposite, Heaven ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I advise reading "The World of the End" by Ofir Touché Gafla for 
>>>>>>>> a truly strange story.
>>>>>>>>     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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> pt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The book of Revelation in the Bible is counted as SF by some 
>>>>>> people. It is truly unnerving.  And by some accounts has already 
>>>>>> passed when Rome destroyed Jerusalem somewhere around AD 70. 
>>>>>> Others do not think that this is what the book is about.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lynn
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      It is about expressing hatred for what the author
>>>>> viewed as the "evil" Roman Empire. It is the Beast and the
>>>>> author wishes the very worst on it. That the temple in
>>>>> Jerusalem had been overthrown was a most likely part of
>>>>> the reason for the hate. I think with the right artist
>>>>> it couold be a depicted in narrative panels. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> You mean like this?
>>>> https://thebrickbible.com/legacy/revelation/ 
>>>> future_revealed_to_guy_on_tiny_mediterranean_island/rv01_01a.html
>>>>
>>>> pt
>>>      No more like a manga or graphic novel.
>>>      bliss
>>
>> Robert Crumb is working on it, but it will take him a while to get
>> to Revelations.
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/BookOfGenesisIllustratedByR.Crumb/mode/2up
>>
>>
>> pt
>      Crumb is pretty good but he was not whom I was thinking of.
>      Clay Wilson would do a better job on Revelations imho.
>      Chckered Demon style.
>      bliss

Clay Wilson would do an interesting job, for certain!

pt