5/9/2023 0 Comments Escape from hell niven![]() ![]() ![]() Some of Niven and Pournelle’s choices for the denizens and their locations are grim justice – Hugh Hefner in the Second Circle Anna Nicole Smith in the Fourth Reinhard Heydrich and “Bomber” Harris burning together eternally in Eighth, and Hitler and Stalin frozen together in the Ninth (well, Virgil did suggest Dante taunt the damned). Having editorial power over Hell must provide a certain satisfaction Dante certainly enjoyed it. Carpenter is back this time he’s the one trying to rescue souls. After various adventures and encounters with the damned, Benny makes it out of Hell and Carpenter goes back to try and rescue others. Some indeterminate time later, Carpenter finds himself in Hell (more or less exactly the way Dante described it), escorted by the shade Benny (whose actual identity would be a spoiler). ![]() In 1978, frequent collaborators Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote Inferno, in which middle-rank science fiction writer Alan Carpenter (sometimes Carpentier, for no apparent reason), gets a little inebriated at a science fiction convention, tries to duplicate Dolokhov’s rum-drinking bet from War and Peace, and falls to his death. ![]()
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