This month, we're going to do two books. Both of them together are shorter than our last book, Eifelheim, and we also have an extra week to read them. We'll be reading a duology from Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: Inferno, and Escape from Hell. Inferno is available from both Bookshare and BARD, while Escape from Hell is only available on BARD.

The link to Bookshare's copy of Inferno is at:
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/34158

The link to the BARD edition of Inferno is at:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.69479 <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.69479

Here's the NLS synopsis of Inferno:
While attending a science fiction convention, writer Allen Carpentier falls from a hotel window and awakens in a Dante-esque Hell. To escape he must traverse various layers of the underworld where, guided by Benito Mussolini, Allen encounters all manner of sinners including dictators, criminals, and bureaucrats.

The link to the BARD edition of Escape from Hell is at:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.69480 <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.69480

And here's the NLS synopsis:

Science fiction writer Allen Carpenter returns to the nine circles of Dante's Hell to liberate tortured souls. Accompanied by poet-suicide Sylvia Plath, Allen treks through an underworld full of notorious figures--including Pontius Pilate and J. Robert Oppenheimer--on a quest for salvation.

J. R. Westmoreland, Group Facilitator
Email: jr@jrw.org