The Fiction Unbound editors discuss connections and similarities between The Good Place and Good Omens. Meta observations about storytelling and what makes us human ensue.
Read moreGreat Graphic Novels — Teens Struggling to Fit In
Being different is hugely consequential for teens who populate graphic novels, as well as for teens who read them.
Read moreHalloween Horror Reading Recommendations: Tricks and Treats
The Unbound Writers go trick-or-treating down Memory Lane for Halloween horror recommendations.
Read more"Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman and Viking Relics
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology pairs perfectly with a visit to “Vikings: Beyond the Legend” at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Read more"American Gods": The Mythology of an Accepting America
Fiction Unbound staff close the books for a night of adaptation television with Neil Gaiman's American Gods' premiere on Starz
Read moreDown The Rabbit Hole: Reader's Edition
Looking to lose a little time? The best links from around the web, according to us. This edition is dedicated to readers--our most favorite people!
Read moreNeil Gaiman's AMERICAN GODS Reaches the Starz
Longtime fans of Neil Gaiman's AMERICAN GODS will soon get to see Shadow, Mr. Wednesday and the rest of the immigrant pantheon as the team of Bryan Fuller (HANNIBAL) and Michael Green (HEROES, THE RIVER) write and produce the story for a new Starz TV series.
Read moreGraphic Novels and Comics We Heartily Recommend
In anticipation of Denver ComicCon 2015, the Unbound Writers appreciate some of the best comics and graphic speculative fiction around. See you at the Con!
Read moreThe Power to Choose: Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper & The Spindle
The Sleeper & the Spindle is a richly illustrated modern fairy tale that blends the stories of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White into an almost unrecognizable retelling. Neil Gaiman has tackled the subject of sleeping and dreams before, but what he hasn’t done previously, is concoct a fairy tale retelling that speaks directly to children as much as adults, with veiled Grimm-like warnings about the trouble with misbehaving. In this retelling, though, the ones misbehaving are the elders.
Neil Gaiman's TRIGGER WARNING: Ghost Stories Fit for Summer Campfires
Neil Gaiman’s most recent collection of short stories are calculated to chill to the bone. The collection is appropriately titled Trigger Warning. Triggers, Gaiman says in the introduction, refer to “those images or words or ideas that drop like trapdoors beneath us, throwing us out of our safe, sane, world into a place much more dark and less welcoming.” So, beware. The book is chock full of stories that would do well at a summer camp for adults, sitting around the campfire, engaged in a friendly competition to frighten each other to jelly before bedtime.
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