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Dear Mike,

I started reading your work thirty years ago. I was nine, and the book was Stormbringer.

At the time it was a little like having the top of my head ripped off and magnificent multicoloured ideas poured in.

I read everything I could find you’d written as it was published—several feet of books rapidly appearing on my bookshelves over the next couple of years. I even read everything I could find by people you mentioned, discovering authors like Mervyn Peake in the process.

I took it for granted that a good author could and should be able to write anything and write anything well in any genre or way, and bend and break genres and rules at will—after all, you did it.

Looking back now, the things that stick are the strange ones that don’t fit, from the Sex Pistols’ novel-newspaper (Irene Handl as Mrs Cornelius?) to the mysterious newspaper-wrapped packages of The Chinese Agent

You’ve been an inspiration. Or to put it another way, I’m probably mostly your fault.

It’s good finally to have someone to blame—

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman is the bestselling author of DC's comic series Sandman; two books of short fiction, Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things; and several novels, including Neverwhere, Anansi Boys, the Mythopoeic Award-winning Stardust, and the awards-list punctuation minefield that is the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFW, and Locus Award-winning and World Fantasy and Minnesota Book Award-nominated American Gods.

For younger readers, he's written Coraline and the Newbury Award-winning The Graveyard Book, and for parents who like reading to their future readers, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The Wolves in the Walls, and Blueberry Girl.

Born and raised in England, Neil now lives in Minnesota.

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