I completely agree about with what everyone is saying about that story...it was far and away my favorite of all the ones in INFERNO. I thought that the story was powerful to me because I'm the new father of a 7 month old boy, but it seems to be hitting home with lots of people. I thought the relationship between the husband and wife was particularly well drawn and quite painful to examine -- the appearance of the "monsters" of the title was just the perfect little surreal snap that really informed the situation in a surreal way, took the story into the realm of the fantastic and made it truly great.
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Re: "The Monsters of Heaven"
Date: 2008-01-26 02:58 pm (UTC)I completely agree about with what everyone is saying about that story...it was far and away my favorite of all the ones in INFERNO. I thought that the story was powerful to me because I'm the new father of a 7 month old boy, but it seems to be hitting home with lots of people. I thought the relationship between the husband and wife was particularly well drawn and quite painful to examine -- the appearance of the "monsters" of the title was just the perfect little surreal snap that really informed the situation in a surreal way, took the story into the realm of the fantastic and made it truly great.