(urth) Sorcerer's House Comment

[Daniel Petersen]

I think *Anansi Boys* is his best novel, far tighter than *American
Gods*(you can feel a lot of both Wolfe's and Lafferty's influences in
those two
novels I think).  He is, though, like you've noted he acknowledged, a
better 'storyteller' than 'writer' and best as a sort of artist-activist
who gets great things known to diverse audiences.  You can't help but like
the guy.

-DOJP

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  I tend to agree. He always seems best when he's doing something oblique,
> like collaborating or writing for varied formats. I don't think that's a
> bad thing because parts of Sandman stand up with the best sf writing. But
> he's always described himself more as a storyteller in something of an old
> fashioned sense rather tha "a writer," and I think that's apt.
>
> I also think of him as a channeler of other things to broader audiences.
> That's not only because he always promos people I like, but even stuff like
> Sandman brought some "literary" stuff to comics, and it brought non-comics
> readers to graphic novels, etc. He makes people who don't like genre
> stuff...like genre stuff, and that's a good thing. He also just seems to me
> like a guy who "gets it" in all the right ways, both in terms of knowing
> what's good (anything he edits is worth the price) and in knowing what he
> does best for the most part.
>
>
> On May 4, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>   Neil Gaiman rubbed shoulders with a bunch of big writers (Wolfe,
> Lafferty, Douglas Adams).  I have liked his stuff for the most part,
> although American Gods and Neverwhere weren't anywhere near as good as
> Sandman or Fragile Things.
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:56 AM, nate jarvis <natejarv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Was it 2 sets of twins in TSH? Or did they send one human and a
>> changeling back to the real world and keep one human and a changeling
>> in faerie (ie, is Bax a changeling, or a human, and if he's a human is
>> one the twins from faerie his brother and the other a changeling meant
>> to pass as him?)
>>
>> Nate.
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