Yes, it's that Lucifer Morningstar—former ruler of Hell, now a free agent dealing with the messy internal politics of his former domain—who is the protagonist of this Sandman spin-off comic book. Writer Carey is as irreverent as they come, but he also knows his theology inside and out, both Judeo-Christian and otherwise: King Solomon turns up, appropriately enough, in a hard-boiled detective role, and a few of the Norse gods put in memorable cameo appearances near the end of this volume. Lucifer himself is portrayed as a dapper man-about-town who can rip people's faces off when necessary. However, Inferno doesn't quite hold together as a book, since it collects three separate story lines, two of which are greatly indebted to other volumes in the series, and each drawn by different artists. (The third, "Bearing Gifts," is a short, stand-alone fable in which Lucifer doesn't actually appear, featuring the best art of the volume: squiggly, wobbly work by Dean Ormston that nicely gets across its sense of the uncanny.) "Inferno" itself is a mess of a story that picks up partway through with a cleverly metaphysical duel between representatives of Hell and Heaven, neither of whom are playing entirely according to the rules of their own side. "Come to Judgment," a cynical parable about the difference between justice and vengeance, features a witty twist on some fairy-tale conventions. The book has more than a few memorable moments, but new readers may be mystified.
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Peter F. Hamilton
Mais conhecido por escrever space opera, Hamilton é um dos mais famosos autores de ficção científica da nova geração e ficou muito famoso por sua série de livros The Night's Dawn (que saiu com título em português de Ao Cair da Noite). A série mistura ficção científica com o sobrenatural e fantasia, o que arranca críticas dos leitores mais puristas de scifi. Da série, o livro mais famoso é The Reality Dysfunction de 1996 (que saiu em Portugal em 2000 como A Disfunção da Realidade). A partir da publicação de sua décima novela em 2004, suas obras tinham vendido mais de dois milhões de cópias em todo o mundo. Suas obras saem em Portugal pela editora Livros do Brasil, que apesar do nome, não publica no Brasil, que ainda não teve livros dele publicados.
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