![]() Thus begins the premise of Escape from Hell, written a full 23 years after Inferno. ![]() At the end of that novel, Benito is able to leave Hell while Carpentier decides to stay - with a newfound desire to free all those who are undeservedly stuck in this land of torment and torture. They travel through each of the intricately detailed circles of Hell and find them to be exactly as Dante originally described in his classic poem. His savior and tour guide through the many circles of Hell is a suspiciously familiar character who calls himself Benito (Carpentier finds out before the end of Inferno that he is actually Benito Mussolini). In Inferno, a science-fiction author named Allen Carpentier awakes after an apparent suicide and finds himself on the outskirts of what he calls Infernoland and later realizes is actually Hell. ![]() What if the netherworld popularly known as the Hell, as imagined by Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy, actually existed? That was the premised presented by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in their 1976 sci-fi classic novel, Inferno. Science fiction book review: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's *Escape from Hell* ![]()
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