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The Kindly Ones, three powerful beings also known as the Furies. They have the power to even harm the Endless, if they should be summoned to do so by a mortal with a just grievance...and if that member of the Endless has spilled the blood of one of their own family. When Lyta Hall's young son Daniel goes missing, she blames Dream and calls upon the Kindly Ones for aid. When they agree - for Dream has the blood of his own son on his hands - a sequence of events is set in motion which will profoundly change everything. The Kindly Ones is the ninth of the Sandman graphic novels and is also the largest. It is a sustained storyline, originally published across thirteen issues of the title's original comics run. It was also deliberately written by Neil Gaiman to be read as a single graphic novel, a decision that provoked the ire of some readers of the comic who felt that many of the individual issues failed to satisfy when taken on their own merits. However, read as a single story ...

Two travellers are driving across the United States, headed for Chicago. An unseasonable storm strands them at an inn, known as Worlds' End. Within waits a collection of fellow travellers from many worlds, all waiting for the storm to end. To pass the time they tell stories, stories from many worlds and many times. Worlds' End is the eighth Sandman collection. It's a collection of self-contained short stories, but the stories feature recurring motifs. They are being told against the backdrop of a 'reality storm' that has been triggered by a cataclysmic event somewhere else in the multiverse (and, although a strong clue is given, we will not find out the nature of that event until the end of the following volume). It's Neil Gaiman's last chance to really exercise his imagination at short lengths before the beginning of the subsequent story arc, Sandman 's largest and most epic, The Kindly Ones . Worlds' End features a succession of stories, told b...

Neil Gaiman has tweeted that he is now writing the American Gods TV show pilot, indicating that the project is still moving ahead despite a long gap since the last hard news about it. From Tor.com. In addition, the BBC is recording a new radio drama adaptation of Neverwhere , Gaiman's novelisation of his 1996 television series of the same name. This would not normally be big news, except the cast that has been assembled is nothing short of stellar. The list of names currently stands as: James McAvoy - Richard Natalie Dormer - Door Benedict Cumberbatch - Islington Antony Head - Mr. Croup David Schofield - Mr. Vandemar Sophie Okenedo - Hunter Bernard Cribbins - Old Bailey Romola Garai - Jessica Christopher Lee - The Earl David Harewood - The Marquis Andrew Sachs - Tooley Johnny Vegas - Lord Ratspeaker Impressive. They could make a movie of the story with this cast and it would be awesome.

Delirium of the Endless has resolved to find her missing brother, Destruction. She asks for the help of her family, but the only one to respond positively is Dream. Recently dumped by a mortal woman, Dream needs something to take his mind off moping and decides this quest is the answer. He and Delirium set out on what promises to be an adventure...until people start dying and Dream is asked the impossible by his son. Brief Lives is the seventh volume in the Sandman series, picking up after the events of the Fables and Reflections collection. In particular, it expands on the story Orpheus in which Dream's son awoke the rage of the Furies and was left in a dire predicament. Dream, who has been changed more than he will care to admit by a century's imprisonment at the hands of a mortal, finds himself in a situation where he requires Orpheus's help but the price that is asked in return is dire. This in turn has grave consequences that will extend across the remainder of the...

Some cover art for upcoming books. First up is Raymond E. Feist's Magician's End (US version): Normally I don't post much about Feist (that whole, 'Fourteen years since he last published a good book' thing tends to get in the way), but this is somewhat noteworthy as Magician's End concludes the entire 30-volume saga begun way back in 1982 with Magician , bringing to an end the cycle of riftwars and interdimensional chaos to plague the world of Midkemia. Feist plans to move onto other works and worlds (including an apparent SF series) for a while, which can only be a good thing for the quality of his writing. Magician's End will be published in May 2013. Meanwhile, Neil Gaiman's first full-length-novel-for-adults in eight years, The Ocean at the End of the Lane , will be published in June 2013. Cover blurbage: “They say you cannot go home again, and that is as true as a knife . . .” A man returns to his childhood village seeking comfort in memories of ...

Neil Gaiman's new novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane , will be published on 19 June 2013. Gaiman discusses the novel on his blog and has also released a cover blurb:   " The  Ocean At  The  End of  the  Lane  is a novel about memory and magic and survival, about  the  power of stories and  the  darkness inside each of us.   It began for our narrator forty years ago when he was seven:  the  lodger stole the family's car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.  Creatures from beyond  the  world are on  the  loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and a menace unleashed -- within his family, and from  the  forces that have gathered to destroy it.   His only defense is three women, on a ramshackle farm at  the  end of  the  lane.  The ...

News from a few weeks ago suggests that the TV series based on Terry Pratchett's City Watch Discworld novels has been greenlit to go into active production . A formal announcement doesn't seem to have been made, but attendees at the official Discworld Convention in Birmingham in late August seemed to be talking about the project as a done deal. The proposed project would be an ongoing series with a first season of 13 episodes, unlike the existing Discworld TV adaptations ( Hogfather , The Colour of Magic , Going Postal and the forthcoming Unseen Academicals ) which are two-part TV movies. The series has the current working title The Watch . The series will be produced by Pratchett's own production company, Narritiva, in association with BBC Enterprises. The only announced writer so far is Guy Burt, who has worked on The Borgias and The Bletchley Circle . The series will comprise adaptations of the existing City Watch novels (presumably starting with the first, Guards! Gu...