Benito offers to take him out of Hell by bringing him to the center.Īt first, as Allen and Benito travel through Hell, Allen tries to scientifically rationalize everything he sees, renaming his surroundings as 'Infernoland', a high-tech amusement park some thousand years in the future.
Upon release he is met by Benito, or Benny, a Virgil-like figure whose full identity is not immediately apparent. He is only released, after many decades, from a Djinn-bottle in the Vestibule on the outer edge to Hell when he finally calls upon God for mercy. The story is told in the first person by Allen Carpenter (who spelled his name "Carpentier" on his novels), an agnostic science fiction writer who died in a failed attempt to entertain his fans at a science fiction convention party. However, it adds a modern twist to the story. Inferno is based upon the hell described in Dante's Inferno. However, most of Hell's denizens in the novel either deny their sins or feel they deserve their fate. The book drew inspiration from the geography of Dante's Inferno and the theology of C S Lewis's The Great Divorce, which is that salvation and entry into paradise, via self-knowledge and repentance, can be achieved by all. It was nominated for the 1976 Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. Inferno is a fantasy novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published in 1976.
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