Talk:The Devil's Cosmonaut/@comment-25021327-20150806032622/@comment-5757488-20150806195446

First of all, thanks for reading mate, and thanks for telling me what you think. I really appreciate it. I wrote this one almost a year back actually, so hopefully I'll be able to take your feedback into account on it. I love the theme of being alone in space as well, as you can probably guess, in fact I drew a lot of inspiration from 2001, like you said (Only the film, I'm afraid, I haven't yet read the book.) In fact, isolation is probably a theme I'll be coming back to pretty soon. I'm super glad you though the dream-like effect worked here, because that was a pretty big part of this for me, so I'm glad I pulled it off at least to some degree. The ending here was something I was a little worried about, because on one hand, some people find it frustrating when a story is left open ended, but it always seemed like the right think to do for me. I don't know, sometimes I wonder if explicitly stating what was going on would've worked better, but what people imagine is really going on is often better than what I could've come up with anyway. The description here is, on rereading, probably the biggest issue. Anyway, thanks again, I'm glad a fellow sci-fi / horror aficionado thinks it's worth the read!