Neil Gaiman's work has been honored with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals.
I discovered that librarians actually want to help you: They taught me about interlibrary loans." I was the sort of kid who devoured books, and my happiest times as a boy were when I persuaded my parents to drop me off in the local library on their way to work, and I spent the day there. A self-described "feral child who was raised in libraries," Gaiman credits librarians with fostering a lifelong love of reading: "I wouldn't be who I am without libraries. Tolkien, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. As a child he discovered his love of books, reading, and stories, devouring the works of C. Gaiman's narrative brings across a level of pathos of a man feeling that he has not achieved what he wanted and that his life has been wasted.Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire, UK, and now lives in the United States near Minneapolis. McKean's drawings are of his standard occasionally fuzzy style and makes use of film stills (Groucho Marx and Monroe in particular).
Despite being ill and feeling week, he commences his screenplay, only to never see it get made.
it's a relatively short story - about a film director, who finds out that he's dying of cancer, and looks back on the research and work he's done for a film he planned to make about a village waiting for the turn of the century and millennium of 999AD. This is one of the Gaiman/Mckean books I missed first time round and am only coming across on republication. Received in ebook format from Due to size etc, only able to view on laptop, and using the dreaded ADE which makes it clunky to navigate trough and difficult to read the text. The bonus material in this first-time hardcover edition captures every leg of the journey, including three related short stories unseen in nearly two decades, an additional chapter created for the CD release of the radio drama, and a new introduction by Dave McKean along with the original by Jonathan Carrol and the radio drama introduction by Neil Gaiman Serialized in The Face in 1989, expanded and revised into a graphic novel in 1992, and adapted for radio in 2000, Signal to Noise has never stopped evolving. But he's still working it out in his head, making a film that no one will ever see. approached - the midnight that the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon.
His life's crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of 999 A.D. Somewhere in London, a film director is dying of cancer.
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