I'm just wondering if there are any other Gaiman readers out there who are also in love with the writing, illustrations, and other worlds of Nick Bantock. I realized this past weekend, reading through the Sandmans and remembering my old Bantock books, that I appreciate these two in similar ways, and the more I think about it the more they seem to have in common.

Dad thinks they're the most romantic things ever

(for those who don't know, they're 'books' made up of letters and evelops and other little collagy thigns). i haven't read them yet, but maybe i should

Oh, geez, I love Nick Bantock. I WILL get through the Egyptian Jukebox, one day.

As much as I like the Griffin & Sabine series, I think I love the Forgetting Room much much more.

I am also a fan of Nick Bantock. I only own the Griffen and Sabine books, but the all of his books are gorgeous.

And yeah, about what LoN said... I'm such a nerd. You ever have those books that you like to give people that you date or want to date? Griffen and Sabine was one of mine.

i shouldn't do that... i already gave away Dad's Leonard Cohen book to a girl i liked.
dad's got more romantic tastes then me, i think... but i've got more sweet music. i think

The thing I really love about Bantock's stories is that, like Neil, he writes about fully-realized "other-places" that constantly reference our own reality. Anyone who enjoyed the interpretation of Hell in "Season of Mists" should check out Bantock's "The Museum at Purgatory." It's wonderful.

I have the 3 Griffin and Sabine books, The Museum at Purgatory, and The Egyptian Jukebox. There are more G&S books out now, and I have to say, I don't like it when writers go back to an old sucessful story to tap the well again.

Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Game. Then he goes, wait, here's what really happened and writes Ender's Shadow. So I'm not sure I want to know what happens in the new G&S books.

I said once that a Gaiman/Bantock collaboration would be cool, but then I realized, what would be truly, awesomely cool is a Bantock/William Gibson collaboration on Gibson's fictional artist Cornell and his boxes.

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Sabine consumed Griffin, I don't see how it could be any other way. Thoughts?

Zone,
Who is William Gibson?

William Gibson

And there's a Gibson thread here somwhere.

I'm not sure Griffin & Sabine merits a separate thread, Talula. Generally people just set off spoilers like I did

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You mean at the end of the first trilogy, when a doctor receives a postcard from an anonymous party? It's been a while, but I believe there is a mention of "we" in the message. I thought that when Griffin and Sabine went to meet on "safe ground" they must have merged somehow.

Thoughts?

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Not anonymous, Sabine signed it. Maybe some people can see merging as positive, but I can't. I would choose medieval hell over the ego-annihilation of nirvana, no question.

All through the last half of The Golden Mean, it's hard to find anything that could be interpreted as happy fulfillment imagery.

PS, Colin Wilson's The Strength to Dream uses Griffin's Kangaroo with a Red Hat as the cover, without crediting Bantock.

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Originally posted by ZoneSeek:
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Zone, now that we can type in white print, we've started doing that for spoilers. So if someone really wants to see, they highlight the text.

(ps - have you gotten something in your mailbox yet?)

Testing my eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

You mean my gmail inbox? I switched. Nope, nothing there. Hey, let's test the spamfilter too

zoneseeker@gmail.com

Yo bots, check it out, it's an email add. Go nuts.

Nope, not gmail.

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Originally posted by ZoneSeek:
I have the 3 Griffin and Sabine books, The Museum at Purgatory, and The Egyptian Jukebox. There are more G&S books out now, and I have to say, I don't like it when writers go back to an old sucessful story to tap the well again.

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Total agreement here. I've read one or two of the second series G&S books and found them totally disappointing. They lack the wonder and punch of the original three.

I loved the Museum at Purgatory, The Forgetting Room, and The Venetian's Wife, even though they're all a bit mixed together in my memory.

Has anyone read anything by Barbara Hodgson? She's a designer who's stylistically very much like Bantock (for some reason i think they know each other), who also writes books. Hers, however, have less visual material (though what's there is gorgeous) and are more conventional text-wise.

Bought Urgent 2nd Class, disappointing! Nothing stands out, though the invented postage stamps are funny.

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what would be truly, awesomely cool is a Bantock/William Gibson collaboration on Gibson's fictional artist Cornell and his boxes.

Turns out there really was a Cornell who made boxes. This is why Gibson's works are classics, even years later I can still find things that will fascinate me all over again.

Nick Bantock's Sage oracle. VegaRiad and I have been playiong with this for a while.

I browsed through The Venetian's Wife today, it didn't really jump out and say "Buy me!" the way The Museum at Purgatory did.