Silly OT Stuff
As if I wasn’t busy enough already, after reading Neil’s journal for October 11 I had to respond. So go read it first and then look at this. No, I don’t have any kind of compulsive disorder… I just like doing goofy things.
“Nightfall”
Neil’s poem, Nightfall, appears online as part of Scifi.com’s collection of essays and poems called Reflections on September 11, 2001. Thanks to Janni for the heads up.
2001 Nebula Award Appreciations
Heifetz, Merrilee. “2001 Nebula Awards appreciations: Toastmaster, Neil Gaiman .” Bulletin – Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America 35(1) (Summer 2001): 29. I am convinced Neil Gaiman has magical powers. I don’t mean the powers of a master storyteller, which he certainly has in spades, or the charm of a young, Jewish Paul McCartney […]
American Gods eBook Review – Library Journal
Bay, Mark T. “American Gods.” Library Journal 126(14) (Sept 1, 2001): 153. Gaiman, Neil. American Gods. PerfectBound: HarperCollins. 2001. 529p. Adobe. ISBN 0-06-001060-6. Gemstar. ISBN 0-06-001062-2. Microsoft. ISBN 0-06-001061-4. $19.95. www.perfectbound.com Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader 2.2 Gaiman, the award-winning author of the “Sandman” series of graphic novels, has written an absorbing work that unites traits […]
American Gods Review – Edmonton Journal
Wiersema, Robert J. . “American Gods .” Edmonton Journal 08-19-2001: E11.Allow me to depart momentarily from review conventions and say right at the top that Neil Gaiman’s book American Gods is utterly, breathtakingly sublime. It will cost you sleep, cause you sunburn and have your family sending out search parties to find you. To read […]
Interview – Vancouver Sun
Mallon, Matthew . “Neil Gaiman in the U.S. of A.” Vancouver Sun 07-28-2001: H17.Once the leather jacket and the shades come off, Neil Gaiman is all floppy locks and a storyteller’s soothing lilt. He’s at the very end of a six-week book tour, a tad crumpled from a cross-country Canada 3000 flight, and he’s been […]
“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 […]
CNN Article – “Job Envy”
CNN has an article on Neil in their Career section entitled “Job Envy: Author Neil Gaiman” which also contains a link to their Online Chat Transcript that I missed (I think). Thanks to my old high-school buddy Rob for ICQing me that one.
SciFi.com Chat
There’s an online chat with Neil on SciFi.com at 8p on Sept. 25th.
Heroes/911 Emergency Relief
Sangiacomo, Michael, “Several projects will help the victims, survivors of terrorist attacks”, Plain Dealer, 22 September 2001, E7. The comic-book industry is doing its part to support the victims and survivors of the terrorist attacks in New York, where DC and Marvel comics are based: Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, Oni and Chaos comics companies, along […]