Neil Gaiman recalls his first meeting with Susanna Clarke and how he fell under the spell of her fantasy novel
When our story begins, I was a scribbling person, who made stories and such. I moved to the US from England in 1992 and I missed my friends, so I was exceedingly delighted when the post brought a large envelope from one of them, Colin Greenland. Mr Greenland had been one of the first persons I had encountered a decade earlier when I had stumbled into the worlds of science fiction and of fantasy: an elfin gentleman with a faintly piratical air, who wrote excellent books. Inside the envelope was a letter, in which Greenland explained that he had just taught a writing workshop, and that one of the writers at the workshop was a remarkable woman of great talent, and that he wished me to read her work. He enclosed an extract from a short story.
I read it, and wrote back, and demanded more.
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