(urth) Wolfe and Gaiman

[Lane Haygood]

Gaiman's novels are hit-or-miss.  "Neverwhere" is decent enough, but way too
much of a "faerie story" for me, just like "Stardust."  "American Gods,"
however, is a damn fine novel.

I think Gaiman and Wolfe are part of a small group of authors that treat sf
as an actual literary movement instead of a genre, something that provides
them a chance to explore literature.  LeGuin, Mieville, Moorcok, etc., also
fit within this group of authors... pretty much anyone that appears on the
blurbs on the back of Wolfe books talking about how spectacular they are.

LH

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

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> On Jan 4, 2011, at 7:52 AM, António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Gaiman is, IMO, a superior comics author. Those are not so easy to come
> by. Of course comics are seen as a lesser art compared to proper Literature.
> Gaiman of course doesn't claim to be on the same league, even in his
> non-comics stuff. Nonetheless, I think more people know Gaiman than Wolfe.
> And I don't think any one's praise for the other is inappropriate or
> insincere.
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> I would like to go back and reread Sandman. I didn't care for most of the
> artwork (excepting McKean's covers) but the writing was phenomenal, and
> clearly has a similar love for ancient myth and Borgesian mindfucks. I read
> it all in high school though, so I don't know how it holds up today.
>  Haven't read his novels.
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