Robert G. Penner lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the author of the novels Strange Labour, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Science Fiction Books of 2020, and The Dark King Swallows the World. He has published numerous short stories in a wide range of speculative and literary journals under both his name and various pseudonyms.

“Tastefully insane and morbidly fun, this witty novel is a delightfully realistic imagining of the attempt to colonize the damned. For fans of long-dead English humorists, sideways séances, misapplied logic, and terribly bright young women subject to clueless chaperones, Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell is Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.”—Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind“Empire’s gonna empire. Victorian Brits are pushing ever further into the underworld’s heart of darkness but demonic Powers and Principalities are about to (and not about to) give them Hell. Kinda like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—but smart, witty, imaginative, well-written and with something important to say about neo-colonialism.”—Mark Bould, author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture“The descent into hell is a delicious one . . . full of surprises and sharp turns and utter imagination. It is a masterpiece, intelligent and satirically brilliant.” —David Bergen, author of Days of Feasting and Rejoicing“Fueled by a conceit that could have been a classic Monty Python sketch, this deft, smooth novel refuses to stop at satire, moving beyond irony into a serious investigation of the implications that undergird its narrative superstructure.”—Brendan C. Byrne, author of Accelerate and Another World Isn’t Possible

Robert G. Penner lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the author of the novels Strange Labour, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Science Fiction Books of 2020, and The Dark King Swallows the World. He has published numerous short stories in a wide range of speculative and literary journals under both his name and various pseudonyms.

“Tastefully insane and morbidly fun, this witty novel is a delightfully realistic imagining of the attempt to colonize the damned. For fans of long-dead English humorists, sideways séances, misapplied logic, and terribly bright young women subject to clueless chaperones, Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell is Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.”—Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind“Empire’s gonna empire. Victorian Brits are pushing ever further into the underworld’s heart of darkness but demonic Powers and Principalities are about to (and not about to) give them Hell. Kinda like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—but smart, witty, imaginative, well-written and with something important to say about neo-colonialism.”—Mark Bould, author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture“The descent into hell is a delicious one . . . full of surprises and sharp turns and utter imagination. It is a masterpiece, intelligent and satirically brilliant.” —David Bergen, author of Days of Feasting and Rejoicing“Fueled by a conceit that could have been a classic Monty Python sketch, this deft, smooth novel refuses to stop at satire, moving beyond irony into a serious investigation of the implications that undergird its narrative superstructure.”—Brendan C. Byrne, author of Accelerate and Another World Isn’t Possible

Robert G. Penner lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the author of the novels Strange Labour, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Science Fiction Books of 2020, and The Dark King Swallows the World. He has published numerous short stories in a wide range of speculative and literary journals under both his name and various pseudonyms.

“Tastefully insane and morbidly fun, this witty novel is a delightfully realistic imagining of the attempt to colonize the damned. For fans of long-dead English humorists, sideways séances, misapplied logic, and terribly bright young women subject to clueless chaperones, Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell is Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.”—Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind“Empire’s gonna empire. Victorian Brits are pushing ever further into the underworld’s heart of darkness but demonic Powers and Principalities are about to (and not about to) give them Hell. Kinda like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—but smart, witty, imaginative, well-written and with something important to say about neo-colonialism.”—Mark Bould, author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture“The descent into hell is a delicious one . . . full of surprises and sharp turns and utter imagination. It is a masterpiece, intelligent and satirically brilliant.” —David Bergen, author of Days of Feasting and Rejoicing“Fueled by a conceit that could have been a classic Monty Python sketch, this deft, smooth novel refuses to stop at satire, moving beyond irony into a serious investigation of the implications that undergird its narrative superstructure.”—Brendan C. Byrne, author of Accelerate and Another World Isn’t Possible