The Sandman: Book of Dreams
by Neil Gaiman, Ed Kramer, Gene Wolfe, Steve Brust, Clive Barker, Tori Amos
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Author: Clive Barker, Ed Kramer, Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Steve Brust, Tori AmosEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-08
ISBN: 0380817705
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: HarperTorch
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Book Review: Novices need not fear to tread; this is good stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't experienced the total Sandman world so am commenting from the 'some but not all perspective' which many potential readers may have. First is the short story structure itself: the beauty of the changing voices & visions pays the price of admission alone, even if you've only the barest knowledge of the Sandman oeuvre. This collection is like the gates to faery: within and between these short & beautifully tantalizing bits of prose you may glimpse Something just beyond. Sometimes you see it; sometimes (for the non-initiate?) it passes you by but for me it was an altogether enjoyable experience. That Gaiman chose & introduces each piece is a small sweetness before each story-course.
The Preface, by Frank McConnell, is a lovely and literate tale itself though I doubt the author would consider it so; nevertheless it is a true telling of who we are, and an excellently well written introduction to the Sandman world. It is exactly enough to know what to expect from these gifted authors whose words fill in and leave out what's needed.
I bought this because I've been enchanted by the works of Barbara Hambly for decades and wanted to read her story "Each Damp Thing"; she spins an exquisitely crafted tale of Dreaming herein. If you're a reader of Hambly's, or any author in the book, you won't be disappointed by their story in this collection & 'your' author's tale will take you by the hand through the others.
Summary of The Sandman: Book of Dreams
There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of story. Older than humankind itself, he inhabits -- along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless sisters and brothers -- the realm of human consciousness. His powers are myth and nightmare -- inspirations, pleasures, and punishments manifested beneath the blanketing mist of sleep.
Surrender to him now.
A stunning collection of visions, wonders, horrors, hallucinations, and revelations from Clive Barker, Barbara Hambly, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, Nancy A. Collins, and sixteen other incomparable dreamers -- inspired by the groundbreaking, bestselling graphic novel phenomenon by Neil Gaiman.
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