OT: The Problem of Susan

Adam Stephanides · 28 Oct 2004, 20:02 · from 2004-October.txt.gz

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From: adamsteph at earthlink.net (Adam Stephanides)
Date: Thu Oct 28 20:02:10 2004
Subject: (urth) OT: The Problem of Susan
In-Reply-To: <000801c4b45a$5644c3e0$6501a8c0@NAME>
Message-ID: <BDA71D6C.4A0CB%adamsteph at earthlink.net>

The fantasy anthology FLIGHTS, which contains a novella by Wolfe (at least
according to the editor, though the boundary between a novella and a
novelette has never been clear to me) also contains a short story by Neil
Gaiman, called "The Problem of Susan." In general I'm not keen on Gaiman as
a writer, either of comics (I regard SANDMAN is overrated) or prose, but I
think this story is a good one, though it functions more as a critique of
the Narnia books than as a work of fiction in its own right. As it deals
with issues which I know are of interest to several people on this list, I'm
curious if anyone else has read it; and if so, what did you think about it?

--Adam

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