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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:18:18 -0400
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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