Thank you!
by morgan on Dec.04, 2009, under Steven R. Boyett
Steve,
Thank you for taking the time to join us on Babel Clash these past two weeks. I’ve enjoyed the posts, and I’ve spoken to others who’ve really liked them, too.
Sometime before you go, in the next couple of days, is there anything more that you’d like to say about Ariel and Elegy Beach? This is good stuff, and I’m hopeful that Babel Clash’s readers will give them a chance. Both are available online and in all Borders stores.
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December 5th, 2009 on 12:01 am
Thank you, Morgan! I know Babel Clash is usually an exchange and friendly debate, and it’s been fun being able to indulge myself and hold forth on a subject near & dear to me these past few weeks.
I also hugely welcomed the opportunity to sort out my thoughts on the persistence of apocalyptic books and movies. This is a subject I’ve paid a lot of attention to literally since I was a kid, and I hope that attention to detail show in ARIEL and especially in ELEGY BEACH, as the latter is in some ways a more mature reflection on personal and societal loss running bittersweet through an adventure story that was written with a love for the sound of the language at least as much as for the images and stories it conveys.