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| | Neverwhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Its 20 chapters unfold a tale of mass assassination, murderous stalking, sleuthing, court intrigue, monsters, betrayal, alienation, friendship, and, of course, that alternative universe. |
 | | And Neverwhere's prose doesn't sparkle as it must to transcend its sword-and-sorcery genre conventions: an endangered princess, a hero who's a stranger in a strange land, a canny female berserker, a duplicitous overlord (who at least in this case is a fallen angel). |
 | | What Neverwhere has going for it is location and a handful of memorable characters. |
| www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/97/08/07/GAIMAN.html (540 words) |
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