I’ve been reading Neil Gaiman’s story The Dream Hunters, both the novella illustrated in 2000 by Yoshitaka Amano and the new graphic novel by Gaiman’s frequent collaborator P. Craig Russell. Both are lovely. The Amano version features 60 beautiful full-page illustrations, illuminating Gaiman’s spare and elegant prose. P. Craig Russell’s version of the fairy tale […]
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Steampunk
This week, Tachyon Publications released Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s great new anthology of all things steampunk, which has a wealth of Victorian gadgets and devices, as well as fine stories by Jay Lake, Paul Filippo, and Ian R. MacLeod. The editors’ introductions are relatively concise, obviously meant to be descriptive rather than scholarly. For the […]