Acclaimed writing pair Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle offer a new twist on Dante's classic tale, Inferno.
After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures. As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin-recast for the present day.
Industry Reviews
""Inferno" is quite literally a cake walk through hell, with a science fiction writer as Dante and Benito Mussolini as Virgil. I kid you not, Pournelle and Niven have had the chutzpah to re-write Dante's "Inferno" as if they were some unholy hybrid of Roger Zelazny, Robert Heinlein, and Phil Jose Farmer. You are right there in the nether-reaches of the ultimate Sam Peckinpah movie with all the matter-of-fact solidity of a Hal Clement novel. It gets to you, it really does. This being lunacy of a transcendent order."--Norman Spinrad "A dazzling tour de force."--Poul Anderson on "Inferno" "A fast, amusing and vivid book, by a writing team noted for intelligence and imagination."--Roger Zelazny on "Inferno" -The somber beauty of Inferno brought up to the twentieth century with care and humor and some sins Dante didn't even suspect.-
--Frank Herbert
-Inferno is quite literally a cakewalk through hell, with a science fiction writer as Dante and Benito Mussolini as Virgil.-
--Norman Spinrad
-A fast, amusing, and vivid book by a writing team noted for intelligence and imagination.-
--Roger Zelazny
-A dazzling tour de force.-
--Poul Anderson "The somber beauty of Inferno brought up to the twentieth century with care and humor and some sins Dante didn't even suspect."
--Frank Herbert
"Inferno is quite literally a cakewalk through hell, with a science fiction writer as Dante and Benito Mussolini as Virgil."
--Norman Spinrad
"A fast, amusing, and vivid book by a writing team noted for intelligence and imagination."
--Roger Zelazny
"A dazzling tour de force."
--Poul Anderson The somber beauty of Inferno brought up to the twentieth century with care and humor and some sins Dante didn t even suspect.
--Frank Herbert
Inferno is quite literally a cakewalk through hell, with a science fiction writer as Dante and Benito Mussolini as Virgil.
--Norman Spinrad
A fast, amusing, and vivid book by a writing team noted for intelligence and imagination.
--Roger Zelazny
A dazzling tour de force.
--Poul Anderson
" "Inferno" is quite literally a cake walk through hell, with a science fiction writer as Dante and Benito Mussolini as Virgil. I kid you not, Pournelle and Niven have had the chutzpah to re-write Dante's "Inferno" as if they were some unholy hybrid of Roger Zelazny, Robert Heinlein, and Phil Jose Farmer. You are right there in the nether-reaches of the ultimate Sam Peckinpah movie with all the matter-of-fact solidity of a Hal Clement novel. It gets to you, it really does. This being lunacy of a transcendent order. "Norman Spinrad"
A dazzling tour de force. "Poul Anderson on Inferno"
A fast, amusing and vivid book, by a writing team noted for intelligence and imagination. "Roger Zelazny on Inferno""
