{"id":4,"date":"2001-09-14T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-14T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2001-09-14T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-14T19:42:00","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Gaiman<\/a> writes: The strangest recent FAQ submission let me know that it had been “proved on usenet” that Caitlin Kiernan had ghost-written Stardust for me, and did I have any comments? Denying it, I was told, would only demonstrate that I was intent on covering it up. Could I prove they were wrong? A puzzler, that, like being asked to prove that you are not an identical clonal double impersonating yourself….But I’d rather admit that Cait wrote Stardust while I was busy fighting crime off-planet. When you’re battling Denebian slime-worms, who has time to write? Thank heavens for the Legion of Substitute Neils. Gene Wolfe wrote Neverwhere for me, while the late Ian Fleming wrote American Gods via planchette.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Now, I like Caitlin R. Kiernan<\/a>, don’t get me wrong. Her work on The Dreaming<\/em> is what origianlly brought me back to the series. (Well, that and this<\/a> cover.) And I stayed with her until the very end, even after she killed off a favorite character of mine, Matthew the raven. (Actually, I thought that took courage as a writer.) But still, I just don’t see how you can confuse her writing with Neil Gaiman’s. Yes, she inherited the mythos of The Sandman<\/em> when she began writing its spin-off series, and she will likely be forever linked to Gaiman for that reason, but have these people on usenet actually read<\/em> their work? They’re very different writers.<\/font><\/p>\n

But I’ll agree with this much: the Denebian slime-worm story has its appeal.<\/font>
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Neil Gaiman writes: The strangest recent FAQ submission let me know that it had been “proved on usenet” that Caitlin Kiernan had ghost-written Stardust for me, and did I have any comments? Denying it, I was told, would only demonstrate that I was intent on covering it up. Could I prove they were wrong? A … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}