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.<div>
<br></div><div>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?).<br>
<div><br></div><div>DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Adam Thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@io.com">adam@io.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Preserve us from the House Of Clocks!<br><br>
Adam<br>
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