![]() The novel, Addison acknowledges, began as “wingfic,” a subset of fanfic. With any adaptation, there are trade-offs between faithfulness and deviance from the text in Katherine Addison’s The Angel of the Crows, in which a literally angelic Sherlock hunts for Jack the Ripper, we find a strange mix of outlandish invention and high fidelity to the original tales. The detective is no stranger to genre science fiction and fantasy either, with award-winning stories like Neil Gaiman’s “A Study in Emerald” or Aliette de Bodard’s The Tea Master and the Detective transposing Baker Street to the Cthulu mythos or far-future space-opera, respectively. ![]() ![]() Sherlock Holmes is one of the most adapted stories of all time-per Guinness, Dracula is the only character portrayed more frequently in film, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Sherlock has the lead for prose adaptations. ![]()
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