Fables and Reflections (The Sandman, Vol. 6)
The Short Version: Another collection of tales from the universe of The Sandman – this time, showing how Dream and the rest of The Endless have impacted the history of this modern world, from kings...
View ArticleBrief Lives (The Sandman, Vol. 7)
The Short Version: Delirium of The Endless decides to seek out her lost brother, Destruction. After Desire and Despair turn her down, she seeks out the help of her older brother Dream – and they...
View ArticleWorlds’ End (The Sandman, Vol. 8)
The Short Version: As a massive reality storm crashes across the multiverse, lost travelers find their way to Worlds’ End – an inn at the end of all worlds. There, they pass the time waiting for the...
View ArticleThe Kindly Ones (The Sandman, Vol. 9)
The Short Version: Morpheus, also known as Dream, must face the endgame of things set in motion many, many moons ago. As dark powers conspire against him and his realm, he must make his final...
View ArticleThe Wake (The Sandman, Vol. 10)
The Short Version: Morpheus is dead. Long live Dream. Friends, foes, and other dreamers and myths and figures attend his funeral – and we are given an epilogue to an epilogue that, whether subtly or...
View ArticleThe Art of The Cover – Neil Gaiman
Hello again, faithful readers, and welcome back to our semi-recurring column: The Art of The Cover. This time, to celebrate publication day for his new novel-for-grown-ups The Ocean at the End of the...
View ArticleThe Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Short Version: A young man who isn’t so young anymore returns to his childhood home for a funeral. Somewhere between funeral and reception, he finds himself traversing old roads towards places...
View ArticleShadow Show
The Short Version: A collection of stories inspired by and written for perhaps the greatest of fantastical forefathers, Ray Bradbury. Some set in the future, some in the past – some completely...
View ArticleTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
The Short Version: Ghosts, witches, human statues, Black Shuck, Sleeping Beauty, David Bowie, and even Shadow grace the pages of Gaiman’s latest short story collection – 25 tales and poems written in...
View ArticleGood Omens
The Short Version: The world was created. This is generally regarded as an only so-so idea – but the end is coming! The Antichrist is born unto… an utterly ordinary human family (thanks to a clerical...
View ArticleThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
The Short Version: From a trip to Neil Gaiman’s London Below to a compendium of the ogres of East Africa, from a scientist racing to his daughter before a black hole consumes the Earth to a man...
View ArticleRoundup: February 2017
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Rating: 3 out of 5 The Short Version: Locke Lamora is a young thief at the head of a band of merry misfits known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Alternating between...
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