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A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

  • novella
  • speculative
  • philosophical
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Overview

Steven L. Peck's philosophical horror novella drops a devout man, Soren Johansson, into the afterlife only to learn that every religion was wrong and the one true faith was Zoroastrianism. His hell is a library modelled on Borges's Library of Babel - a structure dwarfing the known universe, holding every book that could ever be written. To leave, he must find the single volume that recounts his own life exactly, while near-infinite time grinds on around him.

My notes

I haven't written up my thoughts on this one yet. Check back, or read it yourself in the meantime.