· 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 ISBN Inferno By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Publisher: Orb Books Published In: New York, NY Date: Pgs: Summary: Imagine not being able to feel anything not being able to see anything. And it goes on and on seemingly forever/5. GALAXY Science Fiction: September, Sept. ("Inferno") Galaxy (Jeffrey Carver; Patrick Henry Prentice; Christopher Irwin; Gail Kimberly; Spider Robinson; Stephen Utley; Larry Niven Jerry .
Inferno, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is a modern retelling and Deconstruction of the first part of The Divine Comedy, with Ontological Mystery elements. The protagonist is a science-fiction author named Allen Carpentier (real name Carpenter - he added the "i" to sound more interesting), who finds himself consigned to Hell after drunkenly falling off a window ledge at a convention. Inferno by Larry Niven. 65 Want to read; 8 Currently reading; Published May 1, by Pocket. Written in English Subjects: Non-Classifiable; The Physical Object; Format: Paperback: ID Numbers; Open Library: OLM: ISBN ISBN Galeotto was the book and he who wrote it. I absolutely love Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, since after reading this book for the first time, I felt encouraged to try out the original source for their story, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, surely one of greatest works of literature ever. While Niven and Pournelle's Inferno doesn't quite rank with Dante it is still an.
Like Dante, Niven and Pournelle included their personal causes and pet peeves in the story, damning to Hell the people they seemed to particularly dislike, but then that is part of the fun. Inferno is a great science fiction/fantasy novel, worth reading. After you are done with it, see if you can’t tackle Dante too. GALAXY Science Fiction: September, Sept. ("Inferno") Galaxy (Jeffrey Carver; Patrick Henry Prentice; Christopher Irwin; Gail Kimberly; Spider Robinson; Stephen Utley; Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle) Published by UPD Publishing, NY, Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A. 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.
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