Puck | 
06 16th, 1998| 
Well, if they’ve scrapped the original script for the Sandman movie, it’s probably ok to put it online, right? So here you go, Zipped Word document (65k) or formatted text (220k) A big thanks to Constantinos Manglis for this one.
Jun
16
Neil has written the introduction to Wesleyen Press edtion of The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany. The previous two introductions for the Wesleyen edition were written by William Gibson and Kath Acker.
Morgana says on a.f.n-g that Neil has also written the introduction to Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination.
Jun
16
Brenna’s Delirium page has moved, and due to disk space restraints, the Death page has been removed.
Jun
16
Neil is mentioned briefly in the Tori Amos interview in the latest Rolling Stone (thanks Nick Cate for passing that along)
Jun
16
Neil won the Max & Moritz prize for best foreign writer of comics, awarded in Germany at the Erlagen Festival.
Jun
16
“Monkysquat” posted this tidbit on the alt.fan.thingie:
I just found this while reading a Video trade magazine at work. According to this magazine the DVD release of the movie “Dark City” by the director of “The Crow”, Alex Proyas, will contain amongst other extra goodies an article (assumedly about the movie?) by Mr. Neil Gaiman himself. Dunno if there are any Neilphiles out there that are also DVD owning videophiles but I’ll probly buy the disc even tho I don’t have a player yet, which will hopefully be remedied in the near future. I think the release date was July 28.
Jun
16
Gary Farber posted a list of the stories that (so far) will be in Smoke and Mirrors, Neil’s upcoming collection:
Chivalry, Nicholas Was. . ., The Price, Troll Bridge, Don’t Ask Jack, The Goldfish Pool, Eaten, The White Road, Queen of Knives, Changes, Daughter of Owls, Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar, Viris, Looking for the Girl, Only the End of the World Again. .., Bay Wolf, We Can Get Them For You Wholesale, “One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock,” Cold Colours, Sweeper of Dreams, Foreign Parts, Vampire Sestina, Mouse, The Sea Change, When We Went to See The End of The World. . ., Desert Wind, Tastings, Babycakes, Murder Mysteries, “Snow, Glass, Apples,” plus a rondel and an introduction. The introduction is extremely lengthy, and includes a 21 page story, “The Wedding Present,” as well as information about the writing of each story.
Jun
16
Rhiannon Boyle posted to a.f.n-g that Barbara Hambly’s Star Wars book Planet of Twilight contains this passage:
“…did applaud Threepio’s rendition of Gayman Neeloid’s “The Sound of Her Wings” and tossed a credit piece into the basket perched, hatlike, on Artoo’s domed cap.”
Lance Smith adds that in Children of the Jedi (also by Hambly) there is a reference to the “salt mines of Gaymon”.
Hambly has a story (”Each Damp Thing”) in the The Sandman: Book of Dreams collection, where Neil mentions her naming a planet after him in his introduction.
Jun
16
Malin Hellsten has recorded “Post Mortem On Our Love” as a song. You can download the MP3 format file from her page. You’ll need a program like WinAmp to play the file. MP3s are super-compressed CD quality songs.
I’ve also got MP3’s of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets performing, among other things, a cover of The Police’s Walking on the Moon. Go here to get the files. If you’re a fan of Lovecraft or catchy punk, you’ve gotta get these.
