(urth) Wolfe and Gaiman

[Daniel Petersen]

I think Gaiman is just a huge Wolfe fan like the rest of us and Wolfe is
nice enough to return the compliment to a certain degree.  But I can easily
see how Gaiman is influenced by Wolfe's handling of ancient gods and
heroism.  Gaiman has his own take on these themes in his American Gods and
Anansi Boys.  Gaiman is very much the lesser writer and I think he'd
probably acknowledge it.  Gaiman is great.  Wolfe is genius.

Incidentally, you can see the same asymmetric relationship between Gaiman
and his other genius hero, R. A. Lafferty.  Interesting that two lesser
known but critically acclaimed Catholic authors have had such a profound and
even 'fan-boy' influence on perhaps the most popular contemporary fantasy
author (who is himself some sort of religious pluralist?).

DOJP

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote:

>  On 01/02/2011 04:15 PM, Stuart Hamm wrote:
>
>   Maybe he likes Gaiman's sense of humor...Have you read "A Walking Tour
> Of The Shambles:? It's pretty funny......
>
>    Preserve us from the House Of Clocks!
>
> Adam
>
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