From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v005.n042
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:32:25 


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]



On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Paul C Duggan wrote:

> 
> [Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]
> 
> > > observation, after reading Cordwainer Smith's "A Planet Named Shayol," 
> > > that where at one time people wrote gory descriptions of Hell with the
> > > purpose of putting a genuine fear of God into people, several modern
> > > science fiction writers have written gory stories about Hell with the
> > > (seemingly intended) effect of making the reader say, "surely this cannot
> > > be." 
> > 
> > Who else? I'm curious.
> > 
> Niven's "Inferno"?

Arguably, Harlan Elison's "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream" can be read
this way. 

-Rostrum