The View from the Cheap Seats 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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