Reviews

Escape from Hell! by Hal Duncan

mferrante83's review

3.0

Hal Duncan’s Vellum is a challenging and thought provoking piece of fiction that bounces back and forth between familiarity and originality never settling on one side of the fence for too long. By the time its sequel Ink came along I was too busy and bit too far removed from my reading of Vellum to finish out the series. Thus when Monkey Brain Books published his novella Escape from Hell! back in December (oddly enough, two months prior to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Escape from Hell) I was excited to give Duncan another try. While it has taken me a while to finally get around to reading the novella I am most definitely glad I did.

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neilw's review

4.0

Duncan does John Carpenter in a fun, satirical romp as four disparate characters decide they don't fancy spending eternity in hell after all, and stage a break-out. Short, pacey and filmic, and great fun.

jeregenest's review

1.0

Read like a gaming session, and probably a good arguement about the value of punctuation, especially quotation marks.

divadiane's review

3.0

I really liked this. It's a quick read, with interesting ideas about what hell could be like and how it came to be. Sometimes really, truly horrific. But there is hope, our motley crew of heroes are trying to escape and succeeding!