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@mitchwagner.com Chabon also endears himself to me by namechecking Philip Jose Farmer in a footnote. Farmer is one of those writers with a major 20th century SF/fantasy reputation who seems largely forgotten today.

@mitchwagner.com Chabon had just read “The Seven Percent Solution,” Nicholas Meyer’s Sherlock Holmes pastiche, and was inspired. His story: Holmes and Watson vs. Moriarty — who has built an ironclad warship to terrorize the seas — with help from Captain Nemo.