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(b.NEILGAIMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels NEVERWHERE, STARDUST,AMERICAN GODS, ANANSI BOYS (#1 NYT bestseller), and GOOD OMENS (with Terry Pratchett);the Sandman series of graphic novels; and the short story collections SMOKE ANDMIRRORS and FRAGILE THINGS.
He is also the author of books for readers of all agesincluding the #1 bestselling and Newbery Medal winning novel THE GRAVEYARD BOOK,the bestselling novels CORALINE and ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS; the short storycollection M is for MAGIC and the picture books THE WOLVES IN THE WALLS, THEDAY I SWAPPED MY DAD FOR TWO GOLDFISH, and CRAZY HAIR, illustrated by Dave McKean;THE DANGEROUS ALPHABET, illustrated by Gris Grimly; and BLUEBERRY GIRL, illustratedby Charles Vess.
He is the winner of numerous literary honors, includingthe Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Awards, and the Newbery Medal. Originallyfrom England, he now lives in America.
He is also the author of books for readers of all agesincluding the #1 bestselling and Newbery Medal winning novel THE GRAVEYARD BOOK,the bestselling novels CORALINE and ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS; the short storycollection M is for MAGIC and the picture books THE WOLVES IN THE WALLS, THEDAY I SWAPPED MY DAD FOR TWO GOLDFISH, and CRAZY HAIR, illustrated by Dave McKean;THE DANGEROUS ALPHABET, illustrated by Gris Grimly; and BLUEBERRY GIRL, illustratedby Charles Vess.
He is the winner of numerous literary honors, includingthe Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Awards, and the Newbery Medal. Originallyfrom England, he now lives in America.
Genres: Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy
Series
American Gods
1. American Gods (2000)
1.5. The Monarch of the Glen (2016)
2. Anansi Boys (2005)
2.5. Black Dog (2016)
1. American Gods (2000)
1.5. The Monarch of the Glen (2016)
2. Anansi Boys (2005)
2.5. Black Dog (2016)
InterWorld
1. Interworld (2007) (with Michael Reaves)
2. The Silver Dream (2013) (with Michael Reaves)
3. Eternity's Wheel (2015) (with Mallory Reaves and Michael Reaves)
1. Interworld (2007) (with Michael Reaves)
2. The Silver Dream (2013) (with Michael Reaves)
3. Eternity's Wheel (2015) (with Mallory Reaves and Michael Reaves)
Novels
Good Omens (1990) (with Terry Pratchett)
Stardust (1998)
Coraline (2002)
Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
The Graveyard Book (2008)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)
Fortunately, the Milk (2013)
Stardust (1998)
Coraline (2002)
Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
The Graveyard Book (2008)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)
Fortunately, the Milk (2013)
Omnibus
Neil Gaiman Young Readers' Collection (2014)
Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell Box Set (2015) (with Chris Riddell)
The Neil Gaiman Collection (2021)
Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell Box Set (2015) (with Chris Riddell)
The Neil Gaiman Collection (2021)
Collections
Angels and Visitations (1993)
Warning: Contains Language (1995)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)
Midnight Days (1999)
Two Plays for Voices (2002)
Adventures in the Dream Trade (2002)
Creatures of the Night (2004)
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . . (2005) (with Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby and Jon Scieszka)
Fragile Things (2006)
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction (2006) (with Darrell Schweitzer)
M Is for Magic (2007)
Blueberry Girl (poems) (2009)
Zombies: The Recent Dead (2011) (with Max Brooks, Tobias S Buckell, Brian Keene, Joe R Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Kelly Link and Kit Reed)
All Star Future Shocks (2012) (with Simon Furman, Alan Grant, Mark Millar, Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison)
Trigger Warning (2013)
Fantasy For Good (2014) (with Kevin J Anderson, Piers Anthony, Katharine Kerr, Jay Lake, George R R Martin, Michael Moorcock and Roger Zelazny)
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories (2016)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2016)
Norse Mythology (2017)
Blood Bank (2022) (with Max Booth III, Kealan Patrick Burke, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Jo Kaplan, Lucy Leitner, Joseph Sale, Jeff Strand and Kristopher Triana)
Warning: Contains Language (1995)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)
Midnight Days (1999)
Two Plays for Voices (2002)
Adventures in the Dream Trade (2002)
Creatures of the Night (2004)
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . . (2005) (with Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby and Jon Scieszka)
Fragile Things (2006)
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction (2006) (with Darrell Schweitzer)
M Is for Magic (2007)
Blueberry Girl (poems) (2009)
Zombies: The Recent Dead (2011) (with Max Brooks, Tobias S Buckell, Brian Keene, Joe R Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Kelly Link and Kit Reed)
All Star Future Shocks (2012) (with Simon Furman, Alan Grant, Mark Millar, Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison)
Trigger Warning (2013)
Fantasy For Good (2014) (with Kevin J Anderson, Piers Anthony, Katharine Kerr, Jay Lake, George R R Martin, Michael Moorcock and Roger Zelazny)
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories (2016)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2016)
Norse Mythology (2017)
Blood Bank (2022) (with Max Booth III, Kealan Patrick Burke, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Jo Kaplan, Lucy Leitner, Joseph Sale, Jeff Strand and Kristopher Triana)
Plays
Murder Mysteries (2002) (with P Craig Russell)
MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from the Jim Henson Company (2005)
Beowulf: The Script Book (2007) (with Roger Avary)
Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramitisation (2015) (with Terry Pratchett)
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book (2019)
MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from the Jim Henson Company (2005)
Beowulf: The Script Book (2007) (with Roger Avary)
Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramitisation (2015) (with Terry Pratchett)
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book (2019)
Picture Books
Graphic Novels
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Novellas
Troll Bridge (1993)
Snow, Glass, Apples (1994)
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar (2004)
Instructions (2010)
The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (2014) (with Eddie Campbell)
The Sleeper and The Spindle (2014)
Snow, Glass, Apples (1994)
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar (2004)
Instructions (2010)
The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (2014) (with Eddie Campbell)
The Sleeper and The Spindle (2014)
Series contributed to
Doctor Who (with Holly Black, Malorie Blackman, Eoin Colfer, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Richelle Mead, Patrick Ness, Philip Reeve, Michael Scott Rohan, Alex Scarrow, Michael Scott and Marcus Sedgwick)
12 Doctors 12 Stories (2014)
12 Doctors 12 Stories (2014)
Doctor Who : Thirteenth Doctor (with Chris Chibnall, Paul Cornell, Russell T Davies, Mark Gatiss, Pete McTighe, Steven Moffat, Vinay Patel and Joy Wilkinson)
Doctor Who: Adventures in Lockdown (2020)
Doctor Who: Adventures in Lockdown (2020)
Anthologies edited
Ghastly Beyond Belief (1985) (with Kim Newman)
Temps (1991) (with Alex Stewart)
The Weerde Book 1 (1992) (with Mary Gentle and Roz Kaveney)
Euro Temps (1992) (with Alex Stewart)
The Weerde Book 2 (1993)
Now We Are Sick (1994) (with Stephen Jones)
The Dreaming (1999)
Stories (2008) (with Al Sarrantonio)
Shadow Show (2012) (with Eddie Campbell, Mort Castle, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Maria FrAihlich, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Charles Paul Wilson III, Audrey Niffenegger, Sam Weller, Sam Wheeler and Charles Yu)
Unnatural Creatures (2013)
Temps (1991) (with Alex Stewart)
The Weerde Book 1 (1992) (with Mary Gentle and Roz Kaveney)
Euro Temps (1992) (with Alex Stewart)
The Weerde Book 2 (1993)
Now We Are Sick (1994) (with Stephen Jones)
The Dreaming (1999)
Stories (2008) (with Al Sarrantonio)
Shadow Show (2012) (with Eddie Campbell, Mort Castle, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Maria FrAihlich, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Charles Paul Wilson III, Audrey Niffenegger, Sam Weller, Sam Wheeler and Charles Yu)
Unnatural Creatures (2013)
Non fiction
Duran Duran (1984)
Don't Panic (1987)
What I Thought I Saw (1996)
A Walking Tour of the Shambles (2002) (with Gene Wolfe)
Make Good Art (2013)
Monkey and Me (2014)
The View from the Cheap Seats (2016)
Art Matters (2018)
Don't Panic (1987)
What I Thought I Saw (1996)
A Walking Tour of the Shambles (2002) (with Gene Wolfe)
Make Good Art (2013)
Monkey and Me (2014)
The View from the Cheap Seats (2016)
Art Matters (2018)
Anthologies containing stories by Neil Gaiman
Digital Dreams (1990)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
Midnight Graffiti (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995)
Tombs (1995)
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996)
Off Limits (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
Fantasy Stories (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven (1996)
David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination (1996)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Fortune Teller (1997)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
Love in Vein II (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998)
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998)
Crossing the Border (1998)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
999 (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
Bangs and Whimpers (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (2000)
A Wolf At the Door (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
Midnight Graffiti (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995)
Tombs (1995)
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996)
Off Limits (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
Fantasy Stories (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven (1996)
David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination (1996)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Fortune Teller (1997)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
Love in Vein II (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998)
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998)
Crossing the Border (1998)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
999 (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
Bangs and Whimpers (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (2000)
A Wolf At the Door (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven (2000)
Short stories
| The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1984) | |||
| Looking for the Girl (1985) | |||
| Luther's Villanelle (1989) | |||
| Vampire Sestina (1989) | |||
| We Can Get Them For You Wholesale (1989) | |||
| Babycakes (1990) | |||
| Cold Colours (1990) | |||
| Foreign Parts (1990) | |||
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (1990) (with Charles Vess) | World Fantasy | ||
| Nicholas Was... (1990) | |||
| Six to Six (1990) | |||
| Virus (1990) | |||
| Webs (1990) | |||
| Chivalry (1992) | |||
| Murder Mysteries [short story] (1992) | |||
| Mouse (1993) | |||
| Post-Mortem on Our Love (1993) | |||
| The Song of the Audience (1993) | |||
| Only the End of the World Again [short story] (1994) | |||
| Queen of Knives (1995) | |||
| The White Road (1995) | |||
| Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) (1996) | |||
| The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories (1996) | |||
| The Flints of Memory Lane (1997) | |||
| The Price (1997) | |||
| Reading the Entrails: A Rondel (1997) | |||
| Changes (1998) | |||
| How Do You Think It Feels? (1998) | |||
| Shoggoth's Old Peculiar [short story] (1998) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
| Tastings (1998) | |||
| The Wedding Present (1998) | |||
| Harlequin Valentine [short story] (1999) | |||
| Keepsakes And Treasures: a Love Story (1999) | |||
| Boys And Girls Together (2000) | |||
| Instructions [short story] (2000) |
Awards
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Books about Neil Gaiman
Prince of Stories (2008) by Stephen Bissette, Christopher Golden and Hank Wagner
Coraline: A Visual Companion (2009) by Stephen Jones
Coraline: A Visual Companion (2009) by Stephen Jones
Neil Gaiman recommends
The Devil's Own Dear Son (1949)
James Branch Cabell
"[He] is a delightful author.. I like the sheer audacity and the scope [of his work]."
Votan (1966)
(Photinus, book 1)
John James
"I don't know why it's not famous, I don't know why it's not beloved."
Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving (1994)
Martin Millar
"I've been a fan of his work for almost twenty years."
Bikini Planet (2000)
David S Garnett
"Bikini Planet. Just these two words make me think of bikinis. And planets. Er, and David Garnett."
13 Phantasms (2000)
James P Blaylock
"Blaylock is a true one-of-a-kind original and a short story collection from him is a cause for celebration and rejoicing."
The Music of Razors (2001)
Cameron Rogers
"A nightmarishly imaginative debut from a writer of real assurance and vision... Cameron Rogers is going to go places."
The Fall of the Kings (2002)
(Swords of Riverside, book 3)
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
"The Fall of the Kings is, if possible, even better [than Swordspoint]--twistier and deeper."
Pattern Recognition (2002)
(Blue Ant Trilogy, book 1)
William Gibson
"PATTERN RECOGNITION is William Gibson's best book since he rewrote all the rules in NEUROMANCER. Gibson casts a master extrapolator's eye on our present, and shows it to us as if for the first time."
The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure (2003)
(Wraeththu Histories, book 1)
Storm Constantine
"I wouldn't swap her for a dozen Anne Rices!"
Finding Helen (2003)
Colin Greenland
"His prose is as flexible and dangerous as a rapier...his stories go for both the head and the heart'"
Idlewild (2003)
(Idlewild, book 1)
Nick Sagan
"A genuine page turner... a rollercoaster ride of fusion fiction."
Glass Soup (2005)
Jonathan Carroll
"Jonathan Carroll is a changer. He's one of the special ones, one of the few... He gives you his eyes to see with, and he gives you the world all fresh and honest and new."
The Neddiad (2007)
(Neddiad, book 1)
Daniel Pinkwater
"It's funny and tender and strange and impossible to describe. What Pinkwater does is magic and I'm grateful for it."
The Secret History of Moscow (2007)
Ekaterina Sedia
"A lovely, disconcerting book that does for Moscow what I hope my own Neverwhere may have done to London."
Little Brother (2008)
(Little Brother, book 1)
Cory Doctorow
"A wonderful, important book…I’d recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I’ve read this year, and I’d want to get it into the hands of as many smart thirteen-year-olds, male and female, as I can. Because I think it’ll change lives. Because some kids, maybe just a few, won’t be the same after they’ve read it. Maybe they’ll change politically, maybe technologically. Maybe it’ll just be the first book they loved or that spoke to their inner geek. Maybe they’ll want to argue about it and disagree with it. Maybe they’ll want to open their computer and see what’s in there. I don’t know. It made me want to be thirteen again right now, and reading it for the first time."
Half World (2009)
(Half World, book 1)
Hiromi Goto
"Half World is a haunting combination of a coming of age novel and a spiritual quest, a mad funhouse of horrors and a tale of redemption and love. Wonderfully odd and quite unforgettable."
Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)
Salman Rushdie
"A beautiful book... It's like a bridge built between generations, fabulous and strange and from the heart."
Queen of Kings (2011)
Maria Dahvana Headley
"So magical, so dark... a powerful work of the imagination, stalking the murky, dangerous territory between Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned and Robert Graves' I, Claudius."
The Buried Giant (2012)
Kazuo Ishiguro
"The Buried Giant does what important books do: It remains in the mind long after it has been read, refusing to leave, forcing one to turn it over and over ... Ishiguro is not afraid to tackle huge, personal themes, nor to use myths, history and the fantastic as the tools to do it. The Buried Giant is an exceptional novel."
Terra (2013)
(Terra Trilogy , book 1)
Mitch Benn
"I found myself thinking of Roald Dahl, Douglas adams and Terry Pratchett. Wise, funny, and above all, human."
Binti (2015)
(Binti, book 1)
Nnedi Okorafor
"Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. Her worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in the red clay of reality. Prepare to fall in love with Binti."
Rabbit's Bad Habits (2016)
(Rabbit and Bear, book 1)
Jim Field and Julian Gough
"Send your Children to bed early so you can read it to them."
How to Stop Time (2017)
Matt Haig
"Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and the dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories."
You Should Come With Me Now (2017)
M John Harrison
"M. John Harrison moves elegantly, passionately, from genre to genre, his prose lucent and wise, his stories published as SF or as fantasy, as horror or as mainstream fiction. In each playing field, he wins awards, and makes it look so easy. His prose is deceptively simple, each word considered and placed where it can sink deepest and do the most damage."
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017 (2017)
Paula Guran
"Paula Guran is the grey eminence behind the world of horror. She is the secret mistress of the genre. Listen to her."
Finding Baba Yaga (2018)
Jane Yolen
"Jane Yolen is a phenomenon: a poet and a mythmaker, who understands how old stories can tell us new things. We are lucky to have her."
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019)
(Dark Star Trilogy, book 1)
Marlon James
"Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. It's as deep and crafty as Gene Wolfe, bloodier than Robert E. Howard, and all Marlon James. It's something very new that feels old, in the best way. I cannot wait for the next installment."
Then Everything Went Wrong (2019)
(Hilo, book 5)
Judd Winick
"More giant robotic ants and people going 'Aaaah!' than in the complete works of Jane Austen."
The Migration (2019)
Helen Marshall
"Helen Marshall uses the fantastic to pry her way inside her readers ribcages and break us wide open."
The City We Became (2019)
(Great Cities Trilogy, book 1)
N K Jemisin
"A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York."
Night Train (2020)
David Quantick
"David Quantick is one of the best kept secrets in the world of writing. He's smart, funny and unique. You should let yourself in on the secret."
D (A Tale of Two Worlds) (2020)
Michel Faber
"Glorious. There is such personal and political outrage about the world. But what makes it feel like a Real Story, one that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come, is D and a real person on the page. Her adventure and bravery as she attempts to restore a missing letter to the world is beautifully written and delightfully told. I loved it."
Anatomy (2022)
(Anatomy Duology, book 1)
Dana Schwartz
"Dana Schwartz is one of the brightest of the next generation of young writers. Irreverent, intelligent and smart."
Illuminations (2022)
Alan Moore
"Illuminations is a wonderful collection, brilliant and moving . . . Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality, written in language that coruscates, concatenates and glitters . . . [It] refuses to leave your head after you've read it."
Random (2022)
Penn Jillette
"Penn Jillette is an atheist, triple-goddamned lunatic, and his book is a glorious Las Vegas lunatic paean to chance and adventure - a page-turning, scabrous, hilarious ride into randomness."
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