Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman (/'geɪmən/) (born 10 November 1960 in Portchester, England) is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. As of 2005, he lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He collaborated with Terry Pratchett on the novel Good Omens, which is in contemporary setting in our world. His most famous work in his own right is the phenomenally successful Sandman series (see below).
References
- This article contains material from Wikipedia, the editable online encyclopedia.
External links
- Neil Gaiman on Wikipedia.
- Neil Gaiman's homepage including the author's blog
- Neil Gaiman's homepage (in German)
The Sandman Annotation
Due to Morphic resonance, many of the same themes that occur in TP's work are evident in Gaiman's. These include:
- "The Maiden, the Mother and the Crone" as the three Witches (although Shakespeare has a lot to answer for here, as do the Ancient Greeks)
- Crusty manservants for immortal characters (in this case, Death's younger brother Morpheus the King of Dreams)
- The Liber Paginarum Fulvarum (called the Liber Fulvarum Paginarum in Sandman)
- Death, Destiny, Desire, Despair &c as ageless beings - the Endless - just another set of your basic anthropomorphic personifications...
- The manipulations in human affairs by external agencies that end in mayhem
- Parallel dimensions, alternate realities, things on the other side
- Bickering daemons made of odds and ends (all long-leggity beasties with horses' heads and octopus tentacles)