Neil Gaiman's Stardust

Categories: Digital Audiobooks , Science Fiction & Fantasy , Movies & Books , Graphic Novels

In all the Harry Potter brouhaha, don't overlook a movie coming out this summer by a fantastic writer, Neil Gaiman. The movie is Stardust, based on the wonderful book of the same name. This is a grown-up fairy tale, with richly spare writing and fantastic imagery.

The story follows Tristran Thorn's quest for a fallen star, which turns out to not quite be what he expected. But then, as we continually find out, things are never quite what you expect in the land of Faerie. As Tristran seeks to fulfill his quest to bring the fallen star to his beloved, he quite naturally finds out whom he really is and what it is that he really wants.

This is again the story of the Hero's Quest, just like Star Wars and Luke Skywalker, The Odyssey and Odysseus, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Dorothy, and so many others, even Harry Potter and all of his adventures.

Stardust is also available as a digital audio book, read by the author.

Neil Gaiman might be familiar to some as a graphic novel author, most notably perhaps being the Sandman series.

He has also written children's books (Coraline, The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish), collections of short stories (Fragile Things, M is for Magic), and screenplays (Mirror Mask, Beowolf, and, happily, Stardust ).

Neil Gaiman has won lots of literary awards including 3 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, 4 Bram Stoker Awards, and an International Horror Guild award among others. His book Anansi Boys was nominated by the American Library Association as a Best Book for Young Adults in 2006. His awards and accolades are too numerous to list here, but he is, really and truly, one of the best.

In 2000, Stardust won the Americn Library Association's Alex Award as one of the top 10 best adult novels for young adults.

Neil Gaiman's writing is accessible, interesting, and always surprising. I have a new favorite author!