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DreamWorks Picks up Neil Gaimans' Interworld
Lisandro writes to tell us Geeks of Doom is reporting that author Neil Gaiman recently announced DreamWorks has optioned the film rights for his upcoming novel, 'Interworld'. "Gaiman said that in 1996 he began working with Michael Reaves on the idea for a story 'about a boy who finds himself in the middle of a war between two equally powerful forces, who joins a super-team consisting of versions of himself from different alternate realities to try and maintain the cosmic balance.' Soon after, the idea was pitched to DreamWorks and other studios, but was turned down."
The novel has not yet been published.
The author is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman
and he is on the Web at:
http://www.neilgaiman.com/
Neil Gaiman is probably best known for the critically acclaimed comic series "The Sandman" and has done a slew of other successful comic series and novels.
Neil Gaiman is an immensely popular sci-fi/fantasy author. He also does some great graphic novels like The Sandman. I can't imagine being into sci-fi, fantasy, or comics and not having heard of him. He's not got quite the same level of publicity as, say, Heinlein or Tolkien, but he's got quite a lot of fans.
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If you've not heard of the author, you might find an interview that he did for a little site called Slash-something useful.
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He also writes books that win so many awards that he is starting to turn them down. He won the Hugo for best novel one year, the Hugo for best novella the next year and then turned down the award for best novel the year after that.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
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While I like both authors, they arent very similar (well ok, they are both English, and prone to fantasy). The Eternals series doesn't share anything in common with the eternal champion series aside from the word "eternal".
Gaiman's been around long enough that I am not sure you can count his entire body of work as having been authored "these days".
If you haven't read Gaiman, you should check out some of his stuff- you're in for a real treat. I wish I could discover him over again...
The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. -Yeats, The Second Coming
Yes, really! Although the bit about Interworld is somewhat interesting, this would have been a much better article if it explained the surrounding context: Neil Gaiman is hitting the silver screen in a BIG way right now. His graphic novel Stardust is coming this August, loaded with an astonishing number of name actors. And for the money shot, Gaiman's adaptation of Beowulf follows up in November, with another big batch of stars.
Anyone who enjoys Alice-in-Wonderland type stories, the book Neverwhere by Gaiman is probably one of my favorite books ever.
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Does an excellent job of telling a Wonderland type story where the protagonist is thrown into a totally different world, fairly close to this one. It is certainly my favorite work by Gaiman (much more so than American Gods, which seemed to be more 'critically acclaimed')
Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Neverwhere-Novel-Neil-Gaima
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From his website, "Neil Gaiman is the winner of 3 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, 1 World Fantasy Award, 4 Bram Stoker Awards, 6 Locus Awards, 2 British SF Awards, 1 British Fantasy Award, 3 Geffens, 1 International Horror Guild Award and 1 Mythopoeic."
Many of these are judged awards, not fan awards.