Monday, 22 September 2025

Werewolves

 

Steve Matuchek, the narrator of Poul Anderson's Operation Otherworld, is a werewolf. "The Hunt" in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Fables And Reflection, which I am rereading late at night, is narrated by a werewolf. I was looking for a connection and realized that this was it. Synchronicity time, again.

We have found several parallels between Anderson and Gaiman. See here. However, the one kind of fiction that Gaiman never writes is sf whereas hard sf is what Anderson wrote most of.

Today was gardening. Tomorrow morning might be gym. Always, usually, also some blogging. The past and future history in The Corridors of Time grab me but I am still finding the corridors themselves problematic. I have not reread as far as the future periods yet and will stay with Gaiman for the rest of this evening.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

The malevolence of Morgoth and the malicious working out of the curse he placed on the family of Hurin in Tolkien's post-humous THE CHILDREN OF HURIN was grimly fascinating.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

SF and fantasy are two sides the same coin, in my opinion. Poul did equally well with both.