2008-12-18

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2008-12-18 10:09 am

Neil Gaiman vs. Harlan Ellison

At [livejournal.com profile] outlander's housewarming party, I was conversing with people about Neil Gaiman and mentioned a short story I had read that I misattributed to him. One of the other conversationalists ([livejournal.com profile] maverickweirdo, perhaps?) said it sounded like an idea Harlan Ellison had. And indeed, he was correct. Ellison wrote the short story about Shangri-La being a McDonald's. Gaiman wrote the ghost story about child abuse.