Escape From Hell

Allen Carpenter is still in Hell. Those who have read Niven and Pournelle's Inferno, one might have expected him to at least be somewhere in Purgatory by this time. For everyone else, Escape is Niven and Pournelle's follow-up on their updated prose adaptation of Dante's Inferno. That first effort pr......more

Back in 1974, I read -- and re-read, and re-read -- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell's Inferno. Inferno has been described as "a cakewalk through Hell," but there is a great deal more to it than is suggested by that blurb: as shown by a number of intensely moving moments in the novel, the authors had......more

Why I Read This Book: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are well known for several bestselling collaborations: Lucifer's Hammer and The Mote in God's Eye to name two. My favorite of their collaborations, though, is Inferno. When I read (on Pournelle's website) that a sequel was on the way,......more