The one who wrote Coraline, and co-wrote the book of Good Omens and made the TV show, also the Sandman comics writer and co-creator who made the Sandman TV show. Quite nice really.
Hi Neil, I just wanted to let you know that I informed my mother (who's a big fan of Good Omens and a moderate fan of Sandman) of your illness and she has, in turn, told her prayer group about it so that they can pray for you to recover enough to finish writing season 3. I thought if nothing else you'd find it amusingly ironic that your Bible satire has made you a popular figure in the congregation of a tiny Finnish village.
Hello Mr. Gaiman. I know you’re probably busy but as with all fandoms, bullying is going on within it. A Twitter artist made some fanart of Crowley x Muriel and got bullied off the platform (and I think all socials?) for it. People claiming Muriel is a child just for being innocent despite clearly being played by an adult actress. Could you possibly address this, if you have the time?
The Lost Cause is my next novel. It’s about the climate emergency. It’s hopeful. Library Journal called it “a message hope in a near-future that looks increasingly bleak.” As with every other one of my books Amazon refuses to sell the audiobook, so I made my own, and I’m pre-selling it on Kickstarter:
That’s a lot to unpack, I know. So many questions! Including this one: “How is it that I have another book out in 2023?” Because this is my third book this year. Short answer: I write when I’m anxious, so I came out of lockdown with nine books. Nine!
Hope and writing are closely related activities. Hope (the belief that you can make things better) is nothing so cheap and fatalistic as optimism (the belief that things will improve no matter what you do). The Lost Cause is full of people who are full of hope.
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The action begins a full generation after the Hail Mary passage of the Green New Deal, and the people who grew up fighting the climate emergency (rather than sitting hopelessly by while the powers that be insisted that nothing could or should be done) have a name for themselves: they call themselves “the first generation in a century that doesn’t fear the future.”
I fear the future. Unchecked corporate power has us barreling over a cliff’s edge and all the one-percent has to say is, “Well, it’s too late to swerve now, what if the bus rolls and someone breaks a leg? Don’t worry, we’ll just keep speeding up and leap the gorge”:
That unchecked corporate power has no better avatar than Amazon, one of the tech monopolies that has converted the old, good internet into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four”:
Amazon maintains a near-total grip over print and ebooks, but when it comes to audiobooks, that control is total. The company’s Audible division has captured more than 90% of the market, and it abuses that dominance to cram Digital Rights Management onto every book it sells, even if the author doesn’t want it:
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OH DEAR WE ARE LOSING! VOTEEEEEEEE ❤
There is, as Spock would point out, no dishonour in losing to the greatest pairing of all time.
“Corporate crime” is practically an oxymoron in America. While it’s true that the single most consequential and profligate theft in America is wage theft, its mechanisms are so obscure and, well, dull that it’s easy to sell us on the false impression that the real problem is shoplifting:
Corporate crime is often hidden behind Dana Clare’s Shield Of Boringness, cloaked in euphemisms like “risk and compliance” or that old favorite, “white collar crime”:
And corporate crime has a kind of performative complexity. The crimes come to us wreathed in specialized jargon and technical terminology that make them hard to discern. Which is wild, because corporate crimes occur on a scale that other crimes – even those committed by organized crime – can’t hope to match:
But anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops. After decades of official tolerance (and even encouragement), corporate criminals are finally in the crosshairs of federal enforcers. Take National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s ruling in Cemex: when a company takes an illegal action to affect the outcome of a union election, the consequence is now automatic recognition of the union:
That’s a huge deal. Before, a boss could fire union organizers and intimidate workers, scuttle the union election, and then, months or years later, pay a fine and some back-wages…and the union would be smashed.
To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit
This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.
orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!
I'm coming here to ask you something about a very specific thing from one of the sandman comic books, you see I'm currently doing my thesis project and I'd like to quote some lines Death said in "The Sandman #20 Dream Country P4: Facade", and while i managed to write it already, I still need to make the citation, and unfortunately I'm having some bad luck trying to find information like publishing location, it's ISBN code if it has one, and other smaller details for it, so I ask: would you have a link to somewhere where I can get this info of? In the meantime I'll keep looking, but It would help me immensely if you could help me out on this! ::)
Sure. If your Thesis allows you to use Wikipedia then all of that is laid out for you in the Wikipedia article on Sandman: Dream Country.
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