In their novel Inferno, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle reimagined Dante’s hell through the sins of the twentieth century. Science fiction writer Allen Carpenter trudged through the nine circles, led by Benito Mussolini, and eventually found a way out. But he remains haunted by what he saw and endured, and must now return on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering up with the legendary poet and suicide Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modern-day Christ, who intends to harrow hell and free the damned. But now that he’s returned to this Dantesque inferno, can he ever again leave?