I was very skeptical about Martin Millar. I heard about Martin Millar from Neil Gaiman’s website, because he (Neil Gaiman) wrote an introduction to The Good Fairies of New York extolling its manifold virtues, so I got it from the library because I liked the title. I didn’t expect much out of it. The last time I trusted Neil Gaiman’s opinion, I read four books by Jonathan Carroll and hated them all desperately. (Yes, the obvious question is why did I read four of them then, and the answer is, I’ve no idea, it was long ago and I can’t…
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“What I want to do,” said Juniper, “is an experiment in mental telepathy.” She hesitated, waiting for his reaction. There wasn’t one. “I know I have some telepathic abilities,” she went on more confidently. “I can go through a pack of cards, face down, and guess about fifteen correctly. And I often know who it is when the phone rings before I answer it. But I want to try mental telepathy with someone else. I want to try giving someone else my thoughts. Images are easier to receive than words. They’re more intuitive somehow, not so tied up in logic…
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