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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 02:57:09 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <ljfbrjF1eo6U1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>In article <ljfbdtF18ttU3@mid.individual.net>,
>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>>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.
>
>Has anyone mentioned Anderson's _Operation Chaos_?  It's kind of episodic
>being a fix-up, but one of the episodes has the protags venturing into
>Hell on a rescue mission for what reason I can't quite recall.

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