Operation Chaos: Heaven and Hell.
"Pact": demons in Hell.
"Dead Phone": a hinted hereafter.
"The Martyr": immortal souls for the enigmatic aliens but not for human beings.
James Blish
Black Easter and The Day After Judgment: Hell wins the War with unexpected results.
CS Lewis
The Great Divorce: an imaginative and original account of a hereafter.
Narnia: Aslan's country.
SM Stirling
The Emberverse: a Heaven where time runs differently; also, a Purgatory.
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Inferno and Escape From Hell: Dante's Inferno updated.
Julian May
Diamond Mask: "...the peace and light of the Cosmic All..." (PROLOGUE, p. 10)
A philosopher with whom I recently corresponded
We enter the hereafter temporarily in dreams and permanently after death.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think you could have included in this list the first sentence from J.R.R. Tolkien's "Ainulindale," the first part of THE SILMARILLION (as edited by Christopher Tolkien): "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made."
I know not all fans of Tolkien have liked THE SILMARILLION, but I do! And I must have read it three or four times.
Sean
Post a Comment