- Dante, Hell, Journey, Fiction
This is a story about a man (Allen Carpenter) who really doesn't have much of a life. He is a writer. He is at a party, gets pretty drunk, he gets to goofing off by an open window and takes a tumble right out the window! The next thing he knows, he is waking up. He just doesn't know where he is. He is joined up after a while, finds out he is in hell, and begins his own personal journey out.
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Unpretentious, raw, classical in form and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Pocket, Orb / SFBC, Star Bks.
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781607514909
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**Laurence van Cott Niven** — known as *Larry Niven* — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated
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