(urth) Wolfe and Gaiman

[Stuart Hamm]

Maybe he likes Gaiman's sense of humor...Have you read "A Walking Tour Of The Shambles:? It's pretty funny......

             
 
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--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>
Subject: (urth) Wolfe and Gaiman
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 1:34 PM

I have a very general question that I hope people don't mind me just throwing 
out there. I've finally gotten around to reading Neil Gaiman (Sandman and his 
non-comics stuff) after years of only knowing him by reputation/summary. But the 
mutual praise between Wolfe and Gaiman always made me think that he had to be 
more interesting than I suspected he might be. So now, after reading quite a 
bit, I can say that I enjoy his stuff, but it's such a different experience from 
Wolfe that I really wonder why these two so often link themselves with each 
other.

I think the main thing that amazes me is that, while both deal with a kind of 
"deep mythology" attitude toward sf/fantasy, Gaiman's procedure is very 
straightforward and fable-like while Wolfe's is so much more oblique. Of course, 
they don't have to be doing the same thing to respect each other...but I just 
feel like I see many more differences than similarities when I read Gaiman.

So am I dense? Does anyone else have some better insight into their relationship 
(personal, professional, stylistic, thematic, or otherwise) or have a more 
articulate (and interesting) way to compare them? I think this is probably a 
situation where I want to see what Wolfe sees in Gaiman, but I'm not entirely 
sure that I do.



      
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