According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, that nice* and accurate tome of prophecies by the witch Agnes Nutter, Armageddon is nigh. As it turns out, Armageddon is taking place on a Saturday. In fact, next Saturday, just after tea. There’s just one catch: somehow someone seems to have misplaced The [...]
Tag Archives: Neil Gaiman
First lines: InterWorld
June 7, 2009 – 21:49
The Multiverse contains an infinity of universes parallel to ours. That slice of the Multiverse that contains all Earths is called the Altiverse, and the powers of Magic and Science are in a struggle to gain total control of it. Now, imagine you’re an average teenage boy with a terrible sense of direction, and then [...]
First lines: Odd and the Frost Giants
March 2, 2009 – 18:27
Odin, Thor and Loki are trapped in animal form by evil Frost Giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods. Can Odd, a twelve-year-old boy reclaim Thor’s hammer, outwit the Frost Giants and release the gods? In the Odd and the Frost Giants (the 2008 World Book Day book) Neil Gaiman romps happily [...]
First lines: Fragile Things
January 31, 2009 – 14:57
Fragile Things is another collection of short stories and poetry by Neil Gaiman. And just like in Smoke and Mirrors, the poetry didn’t do much for me. But as they’re a free bonus to the stories and I don’t have to read them, no big deal. But most of the stories were as wonderful as [...]
First lines: Coraline
December 24, 2008 – 20:22
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, soon to be a major stop-motion picture, is the story about a little girl who finds a world, slightly different from her own. There, she’s trapped by her ‘other’ mother (who has sown-on buttons for eyes) and she has to use all her cunning and bravery to get herself out of that [...]
