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Another Step Forward

PRINCE OF STORIES: THE MANY WORLDS OF NEIL GAIMAN by Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, and Stephen R. Bissette, is a book that “chronicles, the history and impact of the complete works of Neil Gaiman in film, fiction, music, comics books and beyond.” (It even includes Gaiman’s blog entry about the marriage proposal that happened during the Subic Ad Congress. Yes, Jason and Maui, have gone beyond Google-famous. They are now part of literature!) Aside from providing Gaiman fans with a checklist of almost every single thing he’s ever written, it contains one of the most comprehensive interviews with him. (Although THE SANDMAN COMPANION by Hy Bender provides the reader with the very detailed dissection of the series, the book did not go into as much detail about Gaiman’s life story.) In PRINCE OF STORIES, you find out trivia, like how their family was originally named Chaiman or Haiman and when they moved to England, the spelling was changed to Gaeman, but was changed to Gaiman during ...