Escape from Hell (Library Binding)

Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle

ISBN 10: 143325896X ISBN 13: 9781433258961

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2009

Synopsis

Allan Carpentier escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. Partnering with the once-famous poet Sylvia Plath, he is on a mission to return and liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined.

About this title

About the Author:

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. His Footfall, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle, was a New York Times bestseller.

From Booklist:

In Inferno (1976), Niven and Pournelle updated Dante for the modern age, swapping medieval torments for more contemporary ones. At the end of the book, its protagonist, deceased sf writer Allen Carpenter, accompanied by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, discovered a way out of hell’s nine circles but remained profoundly disturbed by the underworld’s unjust punishments. Now survivor’s guilt has driven Carpenter back to the damned’s domain to attempt a wholesale rescue of its tortured denizens. His sidekick this time is the poet Sylvia Path, with whom Carpenter shares an uncommon literary perspective on their surroundings. In their trek through hell’s darkest corners, the pair enlists the aid of such historic figures as J. Robert Oppenheimer, J. Edgar Hoover, and militant atheist Bertrand Russell. Satan, however, has other ideas. While the territory is perhaps too littered with celebrities in this installment, Niven and Pournelle’s further life experience helps them add gravitas to Carpenter’s philosophical contemplations. Meanwhile, their collaborative narrative magic is as compelling as ever. --Carl Hays

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 143325896X
• ISBN 13: 9781433258961
• Binding: Audio CD