Literary Precedents
Written and submitted as The Man in the Moon about 1978, it was rewritten, and the second half expanded following the comments accompanying the rejection by editor Lester Del Rey. Del Rey published the reworked version as The Elfin Ship, in 1982. (The Man in the Moon was Blaylock’s first novel written to completion.) According to Blaylock, The Man in the Moon was influenced almost entirely by Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows, along with Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Brownies and the Goblins, and illustrations by Arthur Rakham.
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