The Dreaming

Neil passed along some information on his whereabouts for the next while. The really good news is at the bottom, where he announces there’ll be a signing tour for American Gods and this time he’s coming to Canada! I have it on good authority that Vancouver is one of the dates for this signing tour, so I’ll see a lot of you there!

Next year (2002) I’ll be Guest of Honour at BOSKONE in Boston in February, and also at World Horror Con in Chicago, with Gene Wolfe later in the spring… don’t have dates (Feb 15-17, 2002 - from the web site - Puck)

Later this year I’m G of H at a spanish con in August, a Brazilian event in late May; and I’m Toastmaster at the nebulas at the end of April.

US signing tour is June 19 - july 2nd; UK is July 5th - july 12th; Canada is July 20 - 25th.

I’ll have more precise dates/locations shortly.

Apologies if these are only abstracts.

“Neil Gaiman. Miroirs et fum�e”,Liberation, 8 March 2001, p.12
Science-fiction: Vient de para�tre

“MIROIRS ET FUM�E, de Neil Gaiman”
Neil Gaiman aime � citer cette phrase de Chesterton: � Les contes de f�es sont plus que vrais. Non pas parce qu’ils nous enseignent que les dragons existent, mais parce qu’ils nous disent qu’on peut vaincre les dragons. � Dans ce recueil de nouvelles et de po�mes, il s’emploie � d�montrer la justesse de cet aphorisme, en laissant libre cours � une imagination chatoyante, souvent, et � juste titre, sollicit�e par des anthologistes: ce qui explique l’extr�me vari�t� des histoires rassembl�es ici, qui vont de la science-fiction au fantastique en passant par le merveilleux, sur une gamme th�matique tr�s �tendue. Qu’il traite de trolls, du Graal, du diable ou qu’il rende hommage � Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman sait trouver l’angle original, la mani�re personnelle de traiter le sujet (traduit de l’anglais par Patrick Marcel, Au diable vauvert, 446 p., 85 F [12,95 ]).

AmericanGods.com is now live, offering Neil’s Online Journal, a chance to sign up for Neil Gaiman news, and links to pre-order American Gods.

The aforementioned Journal notes that the Well has a new Gaiman discussion entitled Countdown To American Gods and also talks a bit about the upcoming book:

It’s a big fat book about America, and about a man called Shadow, and the job he is offered when he gets out of prison. It’s kind of a thriller, I suppose, if you can have mythic thrillers. I suppose it could be considered SF or fantasy or horror, depending on where you stand, and I’d not argue with anyone who considered it such.

Some very neat Flash work in the online Flash comic Broken Saints. Gaiman fans will probably like this one.