Fragile Things

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name = Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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image_caption = The US cover of "Fragile Things"
author = Neil Gaiman
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language = English
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genre = Fantasy
publisher = William Morrow
release_date = 2006
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media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 400 pages
isbn = ISBN 0-06-051522-8
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"Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders" is a collection of short stories and poetry by English author, Neil Gaiman. It was published in the US and UK in 2006 by HarperCollins and Headline Review.

Most of the stories in this book are reprints from other sources (magazines, anthologies, and even CD sleeves).

Gaiman says in the introduction that the original title for the collection was "These People Ought to Know Who We Are and Tell That We Were Here", after a word balloon in a "Little Nemo in Slumberland" strip.

tories and poems included

* "The Mapmaker" - a very short story included in the book's introduction.
* "A Study in Emerald" - a Sherlock Holmes/Cthulhu Mythos pastiche written for the anthology, "Shadows Over Baker Street," edited by Gaiman's good friend Michael Reaves
* "The Fairy Reel"
* "October in the Chair"
* "The Hidden Chamber"
* "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire"
* "The Flints of Memory Lane"
* "Closing Time"
* "Going Wodwo"
* "Bitter Grounds"
* "Other People"
* "Keepsakes and Treasures"
* "Good Boys Deserve Favors"
* "The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch"
* "Strange Little Girls"
* "Harlequin Valentine"
* "Locks"
* "The Problem of Susan"
* "Instructions"
* "How Do You Think It Feels?"
* "My Life"
* "Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot" - not present in the British paperback from Headline Review.
* "Feeders and Eaters"
* "Diseasemaker's Croup"
* "In the End"
* "Goliath" - set in the Matrix universe and included with The Matrix Comics Vol. 1
* "Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky" - written for the album Scarlet's Walk, by Gaiman's good friend, Tori Amos
* "How to Talk to Girls at Parties"
* "The Day the Saucers Came"
* "Sunbird" - Gaiman's attempt at writing a story in the style of R. A. Lafferty
* "Inventing Aladdin"
* "The Monarch of the Glen" - a novella-length sequel to Gaiman's novel, "American Gods"

Awards

"Fragile Things" won the 2007 Locus Award for for Best Collection, and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" won for Best Short Story and was nominated for a Hugo award. [ [http://www.locusmag.com/2007/06_LocusWinners.html 2007 Locus Awards Winners] 16 June 2007, retrieved 19 June 2007.] Other Locus Award winners included in this collection are "Sunbird" (2006 short story), "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire" (2005 short story), "A Study in Emerald" (2004 novelette) also winner of the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, "Closing Time" (2004 short story), and "October in the Chair" (2003 short story). [ [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/LocusNomList.html Locus Award Nominees List] , retrieved 19 June 2007.]

ee also

References

External links

* [http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf/emerald.pdf A Study in Emerald]
* [http://neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/partiesstory/ How To Talk To Girls At Parties]