“Other People” and other things.

The October/November issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction has a new “diabolically clever short-short story” by Neil called Other People. Here’s hoping it will eventually end up on an audio collection as well.

Also released: a new paperback version of Shadows over Innsmouth, edited by Stephen Jones, and containing the short story Only the End of the World Again.

American Gods reviews are up at:

Bookbrowser.com (Harriet Klausner)
New Zealand Herald (Stephen Jewell)
Bookreporter.com (Joe Hartlaub)
The Dent

Speaking of such things, there was a lovely Tori interview by Glyn Brown in the Independent on Sept. 14. An excerpt:

…With each song, says Amos, a female narrator appeared andsaid in effect, “Here’s my view on this”, and those narrators are embodied in photographs for the CD sleeve, Amos got up quite startlingly in character. In a further twist, she asked her chum Neil Gaiman, author of the Sandman comic novels, to write afew words on each paired character and song. The results of that are intriguing, too. For instance, Lloyd Cole’ s “Rattlesnakes” is Amos’s favourite, the story of a complicated woman on a quest, with a “heart like crazy paving”, needing a gun to cope withall those sidewinders; Gaiman’s pen portrait reveals a superficial teen who parties a lot. I don’t agree; nor does Amos.

“But you know what?” she says, leaning forward, incredulous yet resigned. “He likes her. No, it’s true; ask him. That dope’s the one he likes…”