![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Stardust” is an excellent book that showcases all of Neil Gaiman’s strengths but also highlights some of his flaws. I decided I simply needed to find the right book, and picked “Stardust” (the novel version, though I’ll purchase the comic/picture book version soon if I can. Still, something about him seems to capture people. So that gets him a lot of flak from these parts as well. He is also known for lapsing into stupid SJW propaganda, such as the notoriously terrible story “The Problem of Susan”. Mostly – and I am going by anecdote here – it seems that people believe that he (along with Ursula Le Guin) is somewhat emblematic of post 1970’s fantasy and science fiction: He is a good pure storyteller but with little depth (like “A Study in Emerald”, a fun and clever Lovecraft/Holmes pastiche that has little to distinguish itself besides its cool premise) even though people act as if he’s wiser than he deserves credit for. It is true he has SJW tendencies, but then, most authors do. ![]() Neil Gaiman is a guy who I’ve noticed gets a lot of flak around these parts. ![]()
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