The View from the Cheap Seats (48 page)

Torchia, Joseph, 258

To Venus and Back
(tour book), 391–93

Tragedy,
253–55

Transformer
(album), 398, 399, 405, 411

Trevino, Rose, 19

Trillion Year Spree
(Aldiss), 169

Trouble on Triton
(Delany), 188

Troughton, Patrick, 218–19

Truffaut, Francois, 180

“Truth About Pyecraft, The” (Wells), 337

Tulip mania, 230–32, 294

“Twisting” (song), 395

“Under the Knife” (Wells), 335

Under the Pink
(tour book), 389–90

University of the Arts Commencement Speech (2012), 451–59

UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 491–97

Up
(movie), 464, 466

“Usher II” (Bradbury), 317–18

Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book
(Adams), 115

Vance, Jack, 30, 364

Vaughn, Matthew, 212–13, 428

Velvet Underground, 143, 398–99, 411

Verne, Jules, 329

Vess, Charles, 243, 428, 430–32

Vess, Karen, 432

V for Vendetta
(movie), 225

Victorians, 7, 98, 325

Victor/Victoria
(musical), 139

“View from the Cheap Seats, The,” 463–69

Viglione, Brian, 478–82

Violent Cases
(Gaiman and McKean), 106–7

Viriconium
(Harrison), Introduction to, 361–66

Voice of the Fire
(Moore), Introduction to, 377–79

Von Buhler, Cynthia, 417, 418

Vonnegut, Kurt, 139

Votan
(James), 356–60

Votan and Other Novels
(James), Introduction to, 356–60

Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The
(Lewis), 33–34

Wagner, Karl Edward, 350, 351

“Waiting for the Man: Lou Reed,” 402–14

“Walk on the Wild Side” (song), 399–400

Wallace, Edgar, 37, 83

Wandrei, Donald, 349

Ware, Chris, 296

War Games, The
(TV series), 218–19

Warhol, Andy, 399, 400

“War Pigs” (song), 482

Warrior
(magazine)
,
225

Watchmen
(movie), 222, 258, 289

Webley, Jason, 415–18, 480

Webster, John, 319

Webster, Miss, 118–19, 122

Wein, Len, 265

Weinstein, Harvey, 467, 495

Weird Tales,
348

Weller, Mr., 40

Welles, Orson, 222, 223

Wellman, Manly Wade, 348

Wells, H. G., 170, 329–39

“We Want a Rock” (song), 395–96

W.H. Smith Bookshop, 26

Whale, James, 204

“What's Good” (song), 405, 409–10

“What the [Very Bad Swearword] Is a Children's Book, Anyway?”, 77–90

Wheatley, Dennis, 27, 37, 83

“When the World Screamed” (Doyle), 333

“Whistling in the Dark” (song), 396

White, James, 193

Whitgift (school), 77–78

Who Killed Amanda Palmer
(album), 419–20, 487–88

“Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming,” 5–15

“Wild Asses of the Devil, The” (Wells), 338

Wild Cards
(Martin, ed.), 258

Wilde, Oscar, 325

“Wilderness of Mirrors, A,” 470–76

Wilhelm, Kate, 193

Wilkins' Tooth
(Jones), 373–74

Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big
City,
Introduction to, 290–93

William
(Crompton), 102

Williams, Alan D., 133

Williams, Linda,
Hard Core,
43–44

Williams, Ralph, 340

Wilmington Bookshop, 28–29

Wilson, Colin, 351

Windsor-Smith, Barry, 444

Wind Through the Keyhole, The
(King), 134, 137

“Winter Flies, The” (Leiber), 165–66

“Witch's Headstone, The” (Gaiman), 22–23

Wodehouse, P. G., 103

Wolfe, Gene, 72, 93, 193, 350; “How to Read Gene Wolfe,” 111–13

Wolves in the Walls,
The (Gaiman and McKean), 109–10

“Women and Men” (song), 396

Woodlawn, Holly, 399–400

World Fantasy Award (1991), 431–32

World Fantasy Convention program book (2002), 106–10

World Horror Convention program book (2002), 111–13

World Science Fiction Convention speech (2004), 100–105

Wrightson, Bernie, 250, 265–66

Wrinkle in Time, A
(L'Engle), 20

Writing exercises, 249–50

Written contracts, 246–48

Wyndham, John,
The Day of the Triffids,
27, 175

YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association), 85

Young Frankenstein
(movie), 203

“Your Racist Friend” (song), 395

Zelazny, Roger, 28, 29, 30, 121, 194

Zemeckis, Robert, 223

Zena Sutherland Lecture (2012), 77–90

Zulli, Michael, 241

NEIL GAIMAN
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of the novels
Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens
(with Terry Pratchett), and
The Ocean at the End of the Lane;
the
Sandman
series of graphic novels; and the story collections
Smoke and Mirrors,
Fragile Things,
and
Trigger Warning
. He is the winner of numerous literary honors, including the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, and the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. Originally from England, he now lives mostly in the United States with his wife, performer and writer Amanda Palmer. He is Professor in the Arts at Bard College.

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“Then said Joseph to St. Mary, Henceforth we will not allow Him to go out of the house; for everyone who displeases him is killed.”
The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ,
chapter 20, verse 16.

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Actually, it's me paraphrasing Chesterton.

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The story is called “Snow, Glass, Apples.” You can find it in my collection of stories
Smoke and Mirrors
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It would be published as
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Author of legal-based thrillers, popular in the early 1990s.

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British Conservative member of Parliament. Succeeded Margaret Thatcher as prime minister of England in 1991.

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I'm not quite sure. I think he's something on the radio.

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2016 note: It hasn't been irritating for fifteen years.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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2016 Note: One of the people at that retreat was Danny Hillis, whom I wouldn't become friends with for another two decades. Hi, Danny.

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I'm not saying she was born with it. She may have done something nasty to some otherwise innocent fairies in order to obtain it.

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All names of refugees have been changed.