Some of what’s described in the Vulture article includes clear refusal of consent; along with the claim that Gaiman went ahead and did what he wanted anyway, even to women who were clearly saying “no”.
– on another issue, from that article:
in my conversations with Gaiman’s old friends, collaborators, and peers, nearly all of them told me that they never imagined that Gaiman’s affairs could have been anything but enthusiastically consensual.
so that reads to me as if we can acquit Pratchett. If many others of his friends never imagined there was anything going on that wasn’t consensual, probably Pratchett didn’t either.
I haven’t read Neverwhere. I was really impressed by American Gods.
Good Omens there is no way that I’m throwing out. That book seriously means something to me. But the series – I watched the first one, and was massively enjoying myself – all the way up to the ending. They changed the ending, and to me flat out ruined it; though I think Pratchett may have signed on to the change.
Spoilered, you might not want to read if you haven’t read the original Good Omens and ever might:
In the book, the Antichrist decides not to end the world because he’s fallen in love with a place. The place as a whole: its people and its creatures, its land and its waters, the human community, the community of the place as a whole. That’s what’s real, to him and to the rest of his gang, that specific place; all the rest of it was a game. The video version, beautifully done as it was otherwise, turned that into ‘a boy loves his dog’.
– anyway, I’m keeping that. I’ll tell myself I’m not throwing out Pratchett’s part; and not even they separate one’s part from the others.
I’m not sure I’ve got anything by Gaiman on his own, though I’ve taken a good bit of it out of the library; I might not throw it out if I did, I’ve only actually thrown out about three books in my life. I don’t know that I’ll take anything else out from the library. I might buy something at a yard sale. I’m not going to be buying anything new that’s by him.