This episode you're about to hear is a special one for the Library of Babel. Usually in each episode we talk about a work of literature. I invite a scholar, a translator, an author, and we limit our conversation to a book, maybe a writer, that we both love. Today we have a different format.
It's still a talk with a host (me) and a guest (which I'll introduce in a second) but we're not going to talk about a classical book, instead we're talking about a blog, Which I discovered not so long ago. it's on Substack, and the name of it "Atlas of Wonders and Monsters". And my guest this episode is its writer – Étienne Fortier-Dubois.
This was a fantastic conversation about writing, evolution vs. intelligent design, why we rarely lost technologies, and how worldbuilding in fantasy and sci-fi could never compare to our real, infinitely complex world, and more.
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Episode 4: Étienne Fortier-Dubois on 'Atlas of Wonders and Monsters'