Are there plans for one? If not, what would YOU have the plot be?

Well, Neil wrote a short follow up called Monarch of the Glen which is in the Legends II anthology edited by Robert Silverberg. Just fyi if you didn't know

oooh, i didn't know. thanks, gmzoe

Revenge of the Technical Boy... the Old Gods learn not to mess with the new stuff when the new gods (not the Kirby ones) open a can of William Gibson/Neal Stephenson/ Matrix whoopass. Its cyberpunk time, baby!

And if all else fails, the New Gods can just thratened a Slashdotting Of Doom, like in Endless Nights

(hmm... wonder if this board could survive a Slashdotting. probably could)

I would put the plot into the times the gods arrived and how they managed to live on once they werent worshiped anymore.

hmm...i'd want to bring shadow's wife back from the dead. and maybe focus the story on her this time. she's an interesting personality. i'd love to hear her side of the story.

I have a great dislike for unplanned sequals. They tend to be just hanging desperately to the inspiration from the previous book, without much to offer unto themselves. Books end where they end for a reason, and I don't like messing with that be tacking on beggings or second endings. Occasionally when I finish a book I wonder, what happens next, but that is all a part of the beauty of endings- leaving some to be imagined.

american gods 2 would be a great idea. i think neil might have planned on it, by the way the book endend. he left it wide open and i know i wanted to hear more of it. there are many roads he could take with it too, like he could have shadow have a kid because balder in myth had a child. how that has to be done plus the high tch gods would want to kill it. that would be my idea but im not a writer

I think I read somewhere (maybe in the introduction to the Monarch of the Glen) that Neil realized the sequels (if they happened) would be about Shadow meeting gods outside of America, and about his own journey back to the States.

Not sure, though, since I don't have it with me.

Well, looking at "Monarch of the Glen," Neil foreshadowed a bunch, and he has mentioned writing more about Shadow in England, but it's not the project he's working on now, so who knows when we'll see it.

I don't think Neil likes to do sequels to his novels. But I won't rule out that possibility; I would love to see him do something Dark Tower-ish. That would be awesome.

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Originally posted by Jeremy Cai:
I don't think Neil likes to do sequels to his novels. But I won't rule out that possibility; I would love to see him do something Dark Tower-ish. That would be awesome.

Sure he does-- see Anansi Boys. It's in the same universe as American Gods and has a recurring character, borrows the behind-the-scenes idea, etc.

I guess you could argue that it's not a proper sequel, but it seems fit as one for me.

(God.)

A gender free universal levil of inteligence that no one knows anything about.

(hi Grumpy!)

(and hey, what're you talkign about, I know plenty of gods! the trick is to make sure they don't get into the candy or caffeinated beverages, have you ever seen a Hindu demigoddess who's had a few dozen too many pixie sticks? damn, is all I can say.)

(and the World's End is the place where this world collides with all the other worlds. It tends towards unpredictable violent weather with occasional dragons. There is an Inn there where people take shelter and tell stories and wait for the weather to clear. It's not always in the same universe after as it was when the storm started, though, so people often end up staying around there looking aimless till the storms blow back up and maybe blow home back to somewhere near the front door.)

For American Gods Two- I would suggest going back to when Wendesday met Shadows mother. The pre-war epics. What drove the wheels to spark the war. Flash backs into Wends's younger days. Or even to post war how Shadow brings his ideas to life as a modern God.

this was hardly his best work and i would rather read\see a spin-off of neverwhere first.
i know i'll never hear the end of it but.... this was possibly the worst gaiman story that i have read.
let this sleeping dog decay .