Anderson And Gaiman: Eight Comparisons

We have compared the works of Poul Anderson with those of Neil Gaiman.

(i) The Old Phoenix and the Inn of the Worlds' End.

(ii) A Midsummer Tempest and the Sandman stories, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Tempest."

(iii) Time travel to the time of Marco Polo in the Time Patrol story, "The Only Game In Town," and Marco Polo meeting people from later times in the Sandman story, "Soft Places."

(iv) A speculation in Anderson's "The Discovery of the Past" and the Sandman story, "August."

(v) Odin as a fictional character.

(vi) Retellings of the myth of Orpheus.

(vii) "A Feast for the Gods" (with Karen Anderson) and American Gods.

(viii) Funerary rites in The People Of The Wind and in the Sandman story, "Cerements."

(We have not done (viii) yet but we will next.)