Inferno

Publication date: 
1975-08
Publication type: 
Novel
Published: 
serial: Galaxy, August-October 1975
Opus No.: 
82
Setting: 
Inferno
ISBN: 
0-352-39729-2
Characters: 
Allen Carpentier; Benito
Awards: 
Ditmars nominee, Hugo nominee, Nebula nominee
Summary: 

A reworking of Dante Aligheri's two volume classic of life in hell.

An essay comparing it with Dante's Inferno, written by Mary Campbell, written as a term paper for her Science Fiction class at N.C. State University.

Notes: 

Collaboration, co-written with Jerry Pournelle.  Retelling of Dante's Inferno.

Reprints: 

novel, Pocket Books, paper;
cloth, Allan Wingate (British);
cloth, Gregg Press;
paper, Tokyo Sogensha Co., Ltd.;
cloth, as Questo E L'Inferno, 1978, Armenia Editore, Milano;
Textbook Binding, Gregg Press, June 1979;
"Authors' Preferred Edition," Orb/Tom Doherty Associates, paperback, with a new afterward by the authors, September 2008.