Hell as an argument

Hell has always interested me, and I even wrote a short story about it that was published in the September 2003 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact (see below).

I also suspect that elements of my story were plaigiarized for the series Upload, which aired for 3 seasons, which started in 2020.

In my story, a convicted criminal can be executed and sentenced to hell by having his consciouness downloaded into a computer server that hosts a nightmarish digital world that is designed to punish the criminal indefinitely.

The story actually received some good reviews, but I still feel like I should have been credited in the Upload series.

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