Give me a little credit, I didn’t just search for the exact quote but also the key verbs and nouns (‘anansi killing words weight iron hesitate’ and variations).
EDIT: Eliezer says it’s Web of Angels, I assume the 2012 book not by Gaiman; it is listed in Google Books as no preview.
It’s also, funnily enough, from 2012. Someone should pass a law against non-unique titles!
But googling for plot summaries of the ’80 novel, it’s cyberpunk and pushes the web metaphor pretty far, perhaps far enough to have an Anansi character. That’s probably it.
It may be para- or misphrased. The author told us at some point that HJPEV quotes from the author’s memory while Hermione quotes from reality.
Give me a little credit, I didn’t just search for the exact quote but also the key verbs and nouns (‘anansi killing words weight iron hesitate’ and variations).
EDIT: Eliezer says it’s Web of Angels, I assume the 2012 book not by Gaiman; it is listed in Google Books as no preview.
Web of Angels is from 1980.
It’s also, funnily enough, from 2012. Someone should pass a law against non-unique titles!
But googling for plot summaries of the ’80 novel, it’s cyberpunk and pushes the web metaphor pretty far, perhaps far enough to have an Anansi character. That’s probably it.
I was originally going to complain because Web of Angels was published in late 1992, but then I realized that’s a reprint by a different publisher.