Surfing around the internet, I encountered an interesting story: "The Salvation War". Some of you may already know of it; still, I want to tell you about it.
Some further notes:
1) The Salvation War is not written as a three or five act story, making it unpleasant to read to some due to the lack of a tangiable tension arc.
2) The author tends to describe the effects of human weaponry in vivid detail: either he has a big hard-on for military hardware or wants to make sure that his readers are aware that our weapons can deliver some truly horrifying injuries.
For those still interested: Armageddon?? and Pantheocide (work in progress).
"The Salvation War" is a work-in-progress trilogy, which began production in 2008. The three instalments are called: "Armageddon??", "Pantheocide" and "Lords of War", with the second instalment currently past the half-way point
Synopsis:
It turns out that both God and the Devil exist (and by extention, Heaven and Hell) and both of them are massive pricks, though neither is anything near a divine entity. Heaven and Hell are some sort of non-Euclidian pocket dimensions where they reside and deceased humans end up to become either slaves to the angels or torture toys for the demons. It's not been revealed yet how this works, but it's most certain it's nothing divine.
Both Satan and Yahweh and their demonic hordes and angelic host respectivly were busy exploiting naive humanity for all it's worth for countless millennia. Yahweh and the angelic host however lost interest when humanity started to think for themselves instead of accepting whatever they were told. By 2008, he's completely had it and basically tells humanity that Satan can have them and they can all lay down and die for all he cares.
Satan, no longer in need to compete with Yahweh, immediatly sent in his messengers to demand complete and unconditional surrender of the humans that didn't lie down. However, the forces of Hell didn't check human progress all that often or thoroughly (roughly once every three centuries and neither do the forces of Heaven), resulting in quite the surprise for the heralds when they get homing missiles shoved up their rears.
And thus humani-exuse me...MAN declares open war to Heaven and Hell.
Synopsis:
It turns out that both God and the Devil exist (and by extention, Heaven and Hell) and both of them are massive pricks, though neither is anything near a divine entity. Heaven and Hell are some sort of non-Euclidian pocket dimensions where they reside and deceased humans end up to become either slaves to the angels or torture toys for the demons. It's not been revealed yet how this works, but it's most certain it's nothing divine.
Both Satan and Yahweh and their demonic hordes and angelic host respectivly were busy exploiting naive humanity for all it's worth for countless millennia. Yahweh and the angelic host however lost interest when humanity started to think for themselves instead of accepting whatever they were told. By 2008, he's completely had it and basically tells humanity that Satan can have them and they can all lay down and die for all he cares.
Satan, no longer in need to compete with Yahweh, immediatly sent in his messengers to demand complete and unconditional surrender of the humans that didn't lie down. However, the forces of Hell didn't check human progress all that often or thoroughly (roughly once every three centuries and neither do the forces of Heaven), resulting in quite the surprise for the heralds when they get homing missiles shoved up their rears.
And thus humani-exuse me...MAN declares open war to Heaven and Hell.
Some further notes:
1) The Salvation War is not written as a three or five act story, making it unpleasant to read to some due to the lack of a tangiable tension arc.
2) The author tends to describe the effects of human weaponry in vivid detail: either he has a big hard-on for military hardware or wants to make sure that his readers are aware that our weapons can deliver some truly horrifying injuries.
For those still interested: Armageddon?? and Pantheocide (work in progress).
