The View From the Cheap Seats · Selected Nonfiction by Gaiman, Neil -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Dedication Contents Introduction I SOME THINGS I BELIEVE

II SOME PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN

These Are Not Our Faces Reflections: On Diana Wynne Jones Terry Pratchett: An Appreciation On Dave McKean How to Read Gene Wolfe Remembering Douglas Adams Harlan Ellison: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Banging the Drum for Harlan Ellison On Stephen King, for the Sunday Times Geoff Notkin: Meteorite Man About Kim Newman, with Notes on the Creation and Eventual Dissolution of the Peace and Love Corporation Gumshoe: A Book Review SIMCITY Six to Six

III INTRODUCTIONS AND MUSINGS: SCIENCE FICTION

IV FILMS AND MOVIES AND ME

The Bride of Frankenstein MirrorMask: An Introduction MirrorMask: A Sundance Diary The Nature of the Infection: Some Thoughts on Doctor Who On Comics and Films: 2006

V ON COMICS AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEM

Good Comics and Tulips: A Speech A Speech to Professionals Contemplating Alternative Employment, Given at PROCON, April 1997 “But What Has That to Do with Bacchus?” Eddie Campbell and Deadface Confessions: On Astro City and Kurt Busiek Batman: Cover to Cover Bone: An Introduction, and Some Subsequent Thoughts Jack Kirby: King of Comics The Simon and Kirby Superheroes The Spirit of Seventy-Five The Best of the Spirit Will Eisner: New York Stories The Keynote Speech for the 2003 Eisner Awards 2004 Harvey Awards Speech The Best American Comics, 2010

VI INTRODUCTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS

VII MUSIC AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT

Hi, by the Way: Tori Amos Curious Wine: Tori Amos II Flood: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, They Might Be Giants Lou Reed, in Memoriam: “The Soundtrack to My Life” Waiting for the Man: Lou Reed Afterword Afterword: Evelyn Evelyn Who Killed Amanda Palmer

VIII ON STARDUST AND FAIRY TALES

Once Upon a Time Several Things About Charles Vess The King of Elfland’s Daughter, Lord Dunsany Lud-in-the-Mist The Thing of It Is: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell On Richard Dadd’s The Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke

IX MAKE GOOD ART

Make Good Art

X THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS: REAL THINGS

The View from the Cheap Seats A Wilderness of Mirrors The Dresden Dolls: Hallowe’en 2010 Eight Views of Mount Fuji: Beloved Demons and Anthony Martignetti So Many Ways to Die in Syria Now: May 2014 A Slip of the Keyboard: Terry Pratchett

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