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Don't think so much about symbolism. Think more along the lines of metaphor. ;-)

He's a genius - I love his stuff. I'm halfway through the Algebraist (how the hell do you spell that anyway?) but I've put it down to read American Gods. I'll be back to it any time now though.

The problem is that everything that is argued can be disputed. I guess it's a conundrum without a definitive answer. I call my work Dark Fantasy and people can like it or lump it. But bookshops get stressed if they don't have a dark fantasy section. Then it just ends up in Fantasy or, sometimes...

I'm reading American Gods right now. I picked it up because it was compared to my work on a couple of occasions. I'd read Sandman comics years ago, but none of his novels. I don't think it's horror specifically, but it's one of those things that crosses over genres a lot. I'd classify it as Dark...

By the gods, there's years and years of reading in this thread alone! Nice work.

A good standard is to look the book up on Amazon.com and check out the reviews there. Those reviews are by real people and give a pretty broad range of opinion. There's a lot more info on Amazon these days than you can get even in a bookstore holding the book in your hands!

Hey, what's with the desire to drop asteroids on Australia? I'm new here, so thought I might jump into this thread for starters. I think what you guys are discussing is (should be) a moot point. There's too much crossover. For example, Star Wars definitely has elements of both Fantasy and...