tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701465038062786253.post4608952629944216694..comments2024-03-28T02:25:56.451-07:00Comments on The Fictator: Near-Fetched vs. Not Katharine Coldironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10710500266239699918noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701465038062786253.post-91102336175738337362014-01-02T08:36:06.350-08:002014-01-02T08:36:06.350-08:00That was one of my favorite things about Neil Gaim...That was one of my favorite things about Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" - how he took such a familiar environment and settings and did something so absolutely fantastical with it all. It was SO weird and SO outrageous and yet you fell right into it and didn't question it a bit.<br /><br />And also why I think the world of Rapture is so engaging, because it is just familiar enough to us - not common in our modern world, but we've seen it - that it sucks us in, despite ourselves. It's just enough the same and just enough "different" that I, at least, have a hard time not accepting it, with the "different" parts making the more fantastic elements of Rapture go down more smoothly along with the rest.Chadnoreply@blogger.com