Neil Gaiman biography
Neil Gaiman is one of the top ten living post-modern writers, and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama.
Neil Gaiman is the co-author, with Terry Pratchett, of Good Omens, a novel about how the world is going to end and how we're all going to die. Good Omens spent 17 consecutive weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list in 1990 and has gone on to become an international bestseller.
Neil Gaiman was the creator/writer of monthly cult DC Comics horror-weird series, Sandman, which won nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, including the award for best writer four times, and three Harvey Awards. Sandman #19 took the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to be awarded a literary award.
Neil Gaiman books
- Good Omens (1990)
- Neverwhere (1996)
- Stardust (1997)
- American Gods (2000)
- Coraline (2002)
- Anansi Boys (2005)
- Interworld (2007)
- Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
- The Graveyard Book (2008)
Latest news: Neil Gaiman
Limited Edition Neverwhere Edition
For Neil Gaiman fans this will be some good news. Subterranean Press have just notified us that copies of the “Signed Limited Edition of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere” are “enroute to our warehouse.” The edition, which will be limited to 1,000 copies, will be signed by Neil Gaiman, found in a hand-boun [...]
The Toymaker by Jeremy De Quidt reviewed on Fantasy Book Review
What good is a toy that will wind down? What if you could put a heart in one? A real heart. One that beat and beat and didn't stop. What couldn't you do if you could make a toy like that? From the moment Mathias becomes the owner of a mysterious piece of paper, he is in terrible danger. Entangled in [...]
Fantasy news round-up – January/February 2010
Fantasy authors donate towards the Haiti appeal Harry Potter author JK Rowling donated a full UK edition set of her books, as well as a handwritten card, to Helping Haiti Heal. These rare items join more than 100 special gifts, including a signed book by author Neil Gaiman, five dedicated books [...]
Name of the Wind author organizes charity drive
Patrick Rothfuss, author of the fantasy novel The Name of the Wind, is proving that you don't have to be wealthy to be a philanthropist. Rothfuss has organized a charity drive through his blog to benefit needy families around the world. Last year, the 36-year-old Wisconsin writer expected to [...]
Neil Gaiman to Appear at World Financial Center on January 16
The World Financial Center roster of performances for 2010 has been announced. Performances take place in the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. A special performance on January 16 will feature Neil Gaiman narrating Peter and the Wolf. Other offerings will include New York Classical Theatre [...]
Get your loved one Neil Gaiman perfume for Christmas!
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is a cult perfumery known for their Gothic-inspired scents. They have recently introduced an expansive collection of Neil Gaiman scents, inspired by his books. 100% of proceeds will go to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and the collection is approved by the author himsel [...]
Film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens could still happen
Last week Joseph McCabe of FEARnet.com caught up with Terry Gilliam and the filmmaking Python told him that his long-in-development adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's dark fantasy novel Good Omens isn't dead in the water yet. Apparently, it's just resting. “It's still sitting out th [...]
Neil Gaiman on So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
October 12 marked the 30th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Here are fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s thoughts on the fourth book in the series So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: Douglas Adams was tall. He was brilliant. I’ve met a handful of geniuses, and I’d cou [...]
October 12 marks the 30th anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
We here at Fantasy Book Review are dedicated to the fantasy genre. We do not read and review science fiction books unless they are something most remarkable, books that transcend genres… As October 12 2009 marks the day that the most remarkeable book ever to come out of the great publishing corpor [...]
Tender Morsels our pick to win the World Fantasy Award
Last month we ran a story on the nominations for the World Fantasy Award. Unfortunately, we do not have the time to read and review all the entrants, but we thought that we should at least cover the five nominations for best novel. So which book do we here at Fantasy Book Review believe should win t [...]
Neil Gaiman interviews
Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times interviewed British fantasy novelist Neil Gaiman on the 29th of December 2008. Read the full LA Times interview - Even for Neil Gaiman, 'The Sandman' is a singular dream
Book of the Month
Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson
On the Letherii continent the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen. The fate awaiting the Bonehunters is one no soldier can prepare for, and one no mortal soul can withstand - the foe is uncertainty and the only weapon worth wielding is stubborn courage.
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Competition: Win Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars trilogy
Alyss, born in Wonderland, is destined to be a warrior queen. After a bloody coup topples the Heart regime, Alyss is exiled to another world entirely, where she is adopted into a new family, renamed Alice and befriended by Lewis Carroll. At age 20 she returns to Wonderland to battle Redd and lead Wonderland into its next golden age of imagination.
Special Feature: Fantasy Book Review talks to the Book View Cafe
Book View Cafe is a cooperative site created by a group of writers - including internationally renowned authors Katharine Kerr, Ursula Le Guin and Vonda N. McIntyre - who want to take advantage of the internet's possibilities for reaching a wider audience and to distribute their work directly to their readers. The Book View Cafe is a place where you can find free, original fiction plus the authors' best and out-of-print work for a fee. Fantasy Book Review spoke to Book View Cafe member, science fiction author and memoirist Chris Dolley in February 2010.
Special Feature: Understanding the author of Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, the elusive author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, has been the subject of enduring fascination for the past hundred years. The destruction of many major documents about his personal life by his descendants has only magnified the mystery. Jenny Woolf's biography, published to coincide with the release of the new Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland film, lays waste to the myths and suspicions that have obscured Carroll's reputation by placing him firmly in the context of his own time.
