But he climbed down thru the ice, just as Dante described. Some clear strangeness going on with Up & Down and so forth. 'A four-thousand-mile climb, if Dante was half right!' he bellowed cheerfully. The handholds were not difficult, and he moved like a spider monkey, or like a fat man who no longer weighs anything at all.He looked down from the inward-tilting gray slope of grotto roof. Escape from Hell (Inferno, 2) by Larry Niven (2009) Escape from Hell is a fantasy novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It stretched away like the neck of an inverted funnel, straight up for an unguessable distance.īut Benito was on his feet. The rock curved inward over our heads, but it never closed. The dim light came from a single bright pinpoint source overhead. Somewhere a running stream made a bright, happy gurgling sound. We lay on our backs on the smooth rock, panting. The Devil's hooves still loomed over us, big enough to stamp a city flat. The climb seemed endless, but it ended, not in ice but in an echoing grotto of gray rock, dimly lit. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpentier is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow Hell and free the damned. I hadn't really expected one.īenito worked his way around until his feet pointed at me, and kept climbing. No quantum black hole crushed and swallowed me. Escape from Hell By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Narrated by: Tom Weiner Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins 4.0 (244 ratings) Try for 0. There was a point where I must have weighed tons, and all of it pushing inward toward my navel. It would have been big enough to hide a battleship. There was three feet of empty space all around the enormous waist.Īnd no navel. Partway down, tho, gravity (or perspective. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpentier is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow Hell and free the damned. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. He didn't he climbed DOWN Satan initially to reach the grotto, then climbed up the cliff to reach Purgatory. Allan Carpentier escaped from Hell once, but he remained haunted by what he saw and endured.

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