Series
Inferno
Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven · 2 novels · 1976–2009
In Inferno, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle send a science fiction writer to his death and drop him into a modern-dress version of Dante's nine circles of Hell, where he must reason his way toward understanding why he has been damned. The 1976 novel was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the authors returned to the same character decades later in a sequel, Escape from Hell. Together the two books form a self-contained pair rather than an open-ended series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Map
Inferno at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and calm: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Infernodarkest · most intense
- Escape from Hellbrightest · calmest