Inferno (Larry Niven novel)

Inferno is the title of a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1975). It describes a trip through a on the first part of the Divine Comedy -based Hell of a science fiction writer. ==The story[ Edit] .== Allen Carpentier (born Carpenter) is a science fiction writer who is just not at the real successful writers should. He deceased at a fairly stupide accident because he hangs out the window to impress his fans (who don't even look back to him as walked in the room was Asimov ).

He wakes up in a bottle, which he is freed, after he had begged God for mercy. He appears to be located on the outside of hell and his liberator is a Sigurd man named Benito. Benito, also called Benny, offers to lead him to the way out through the village, and leads him through hell as Virgil did in the story of Dante.

All rationalizes the situation, thinking that he ended up thousands of years in the future and that extraterrestrials had built up this hell as a sort of futuristic amusement park, Inferno country. Only when he sees that even the most complex injuries, even in his own, very fast healing (after all, everyone is already dead), he realizes that he is in the real Hell.

In hell he meets acquaintances and many historical figures. They are very strict and in Allen's eyes disproportionately punished. Someone who had been advertising worker must forever in the POO and has instead of a mouth, anus as punishment for a second "proclaiming false promises". Another must forever behind a banner running because he was in real life a wind cock was dared to take that do not provide their own position. An astronaut is in a whirlwind of sinners as punishment for his lust (astronauts are popular with women and he had a lot of girlfriends). Sodomites, including homosexuals and anyone out there even the slightest "foreign preference" did be racked into a glowing desert with fire rains. Billy the Kid to affects all in a Lake of boiling blood. He also met King Minos, which determines where each sinner his or her punishment will have to sit out.

All hits displeased by the harshness of the punishments, and also at every sin that he perceives itself also guilty to one degree or another. After talking with different people, he notes that it does not have this understanding, and that they probably should remain therefore in hell. This is an elaboration of the universalism: anyone can find redemption. However, most residents of hell find this not because they either find that they earn their sentences or their SIN deny.

All calls with his group deeper into hell by. In the inner circles, he meets the "heavier" cases: bad counselors, traitors, murderers and thieves. Here he finds that Benito Benito Mussolini is in reality. He pushes Benito displeased in the Gorge of bad counselors, but will later regret and saves him again.

Eventually come Benito and all at the Frozen sea of Traitors, and reach through Lucifer the exit. There offers to stay in hell, so all to Benito finally by may walk to the purgatory. By Benito Mussolini will replace as the Guide for all other souls.