Forgotten god in _American Gods_

[thymidinekinase]

This is really out-of-nowhere, I know, but:
In Neil Gaiman's _American Gods_, who is the god you can't remember when you talk to him?

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Re: Hi Anna!

[thymidinekinase.livejournal.com]

That's the best answer I've heard so far. The only thing it doesn't fit with is Gaiman's caginess on the subject. He apparently gets asked about that god in nearly every interview, and always changes the subject, says that he doesn't recall, or something.

Authors are a cruel lot

[jolinn.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sort of torn. His caginess indicates it might be something he made up just to torture people into guessing who the god actually is, and on the other, the god has so many specific details about him, it's hard to think it's not a specific god, and he's just not telling us until someone guesses right, or he's had his fun (see: Robert Jordan and 'Who Killed Asmodean?').

That said, I really liked American Gods, but I'm really not sure if it was Hugo-worthy: It was too derivative of other things (Small Gods, Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, and even Sandman) to allow it to be really A+ material. OTOH, I'm re-reading it now, so it's better than most.