Kings in Hell [Paperback]

C.J. Cherryh (Author), Janet Morris (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 377 pages
• Publisher: Baen (February 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671656147
• ISBN-13: 978-0671656140
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.5 x 3.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I've written sf and fantasy for publication since 1975...but I've written a lot longer than that. I have a background in Mediterranean archaeology, Latin, Greek, that sort of thing; my hobbies are travel, photography, planetary geology, physics, pond-building for koi...I run a marine tank, can plumb most anything, and I figure-skate.

I believe in the future: I'm an optimist for good reason---I've studied a lot of history, in which, yes, there is climate change, and our species has been through it. We've never faced it fully armed with what we now know, and if we play our cards right, we'll use it as a technological springboard and carry on in very interesting ways.

I also believe a writer owes a reader a book that has more than general despair to spread about: I write about clever, determined people who don't put up with situations, not for long, anyway: people who find solutions inspire me.

My personal websites and blog: http://www.cherryh.com
http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore
http://www.closed-circle.net

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7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heroes in Hell is a garden of infernal delights, September 20, 2000

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Mary Carol Scherb (Irvine, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kings in Hell (Paperback)

Imagine the greatest personages of the ages, together -- in hell. That's the premise of this series by two very talented sci-fi fantasy writers. A brief excerpt: Whump! The ground shook and reports of the guns on the hills kept up, explosions slamming against the hill in front of them. Save the equipment. Save their shelter. Protect themselves against the chance that some enemy up there had something to answer the tanks: a general in Hell never assumed anything, and lasers and disruptors and tactical nukes were always a possibility. Get themselves and their equipment out of here, and discover why later-that was Julius Caesar's priority. Cleopatra was shouting orders of her own, snatching up equipage and personal belongings and wreckage and shoving them at an orderly while legionaries struck the tent they had been sleeping in. That sudden flattening of the canvas as Julius glanced back showed him the chopper on the field beyond the camp, all aglare with its landing lights and making a target out of itself-till it roared back into the air and beat directly overhead, throwing unwelcome lights on the camp. Achilles was taking a recon or deserting them, it was a tossup which.