Babel Clash

Bob,

Thank you for participating in Babel Clash.  Before you go, would you like to take the opportunity to tell us about The Ghost King and the Dame?  Why are these classic Salvatore must-reads?

Morgan

Gremlin

The debate this week is about movies, and it has turned to elves at the movies.  Unfortunately, we’ve had some gremlins in the machine.  Just like an old-fashioned movie reel slipping off the track, we’ve experienced some technical difficulties.

Bob Salvatore is still on schedule to post this week.  Because of some computer glitches, he’s had a hard time logging into our Babel Clash system.  That should be fixed today, and then we’ll be back to our regular geeky debate schedule.

Sorry for the interruption in posts, everyone.  Please stick with us and see more of the discussion with Bob throughout the week.  Thank you.

Bob, do envision Drizzt making it into a live-action film?  Do you have favorite scenes that you’d especially love to see on the big screen?  When envisioning scenes for your Drizzt adventures, do you consciously build scenes with cinematic scope or does that come naturally given the genre?

Best Sci-Fi movie moment?  Is there any contest here?  Empire Strikes Back.  “I am your father.”

It’s a perfect revelation that flips the story upside down and changes everyone’s view of the entire Star Wars mythos.  Well, it does if you haven’t seen the prequels first.

Here are some cool interviews with R. A. Salvatore and an excerpt from  his new novel, Ghost King.  Enjoy.

Interview 1
Interview 2
Interview 3
Ghost King excerpt

Thank you to Bill, James and Matt.  It’s been a great conversation.

Peter & Max didn’t get its fair share of time as a featured title, so I want to take a moment to recommend it.  If you’re a fan of Fables, then you’ll love Peter & Max.  That’s a given.  If you haven’t yet read this award-winning comic series, then thankfully, the novel stands on its own merit.  Bill puts his own unique spin on the classic fairy tale of Peter Piper.  Learn the secret history of the Piper family and then enjoy a classic battle of wills and wits between Peter and his evil brother.  It’s a well told tale by a storyteller who now deserves equal admiration as both a novelist and a comic writer.

Now for our next guest.  I’m honored to welcome R. A. Salvatore to Babel Clash.  Salvatore is the author of the Drizzt Do’Urden novels, including the brand new The Ghost King.  Among his other notable series is the Saga of the First King.  The lastest volume in that series, the Dame, is also available in stores and on Borders.com now.

Before we kill all the elves, let’s reflect.  Here are 9 great stories featuring them.  If you had to add a 10th story to this Top 10 list, what would you add?

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare
The King of Elfland’s Daughter, by Lord Dunsany
The Drizzt Do’Urden novels, by R. A. Salvatore
Elfstones of Shannara, by Terry Brooks
The Harry Potter novels, by J. K. Rowling
Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett
Keeping It Real, by Justina Robson
Elvenbane, by Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, by Guillermo Del Toro