Neil Gaiman

English writer (born 1960)

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Neil Gaiman

Gaiman in 2013

Born| Neil Richard Gaiman
(1960-11-10) 10 November 1960 (age 64)
Portchester, Hampshire, England
Occupation|

* Author
* comic book writer
* screenwriter
* voice actor

Genre|

* Fantasy
* horror
* science fiction
* dark fantasy
* comedy

Years active| 1984–present
Notable works| The Sandman, Neverwhere, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Spouses|

Mary McGrath

(m. 1985; div. 2007)​

Amanda Palmer

(m. 2011; sep. 2022)​

Children| 4

Neil Gaiman's voice

from the BBC programme Saturday Live, 12 October 2013.[1]

Website
neilgaiman.com

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (/ˈɡeɪmən/;[2] born Neil Richard Gaiman; 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic series The Sandman (1989–1996) and the novels Good Omens (1990), Stardust (1999), American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), Anansi Boys (2005), The Graveyard Book (2008) and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013). He co-created the TV adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman.

Gaiman's awards include Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards and Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards, and it was adapted into an acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London.

Beginning in 2024, news outlets published sexual assault accusations against Gaiman by numerous women. This affected or halted production on several adaptations of his work. One accuser sued Gaiman and his estranged wife Amanda Palmer for rape and human trafficking.[3] Gaiman has denied these allegations.

## Early life and education

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Neil Richard Gaiman[4] was born on 10 November 1960[5] in Portchester, Hampshire.[6] Gaiman's family is of Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi origins.[7] His great-grandfather emigrated to England from Antwerp before 1914[8] and his grandfather settled in Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores, changing the family name from Chaiman to Gaiman.[9] His father, David Bernard Gaiman, worked in the same chain of stores;[10] his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldman), was a pharmacist. Neil has two younger sisters, Claire and Lizzy.[11]

The Gaimans moved in 1965 to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, where his parents studied Dianetics at the Scientology centre in the town; one of Gaiman's sisters works for the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. His other sister, Lizzy Calcioli, has said, "Most of our social activities were involved with Scientology or our Jewish family. It would get very confusing when people would ask my religion as a kid. I'd say, 'I'm a Jewish Scientologist.'" Gaiman says that he is not a Scientologist, and that like Judaism, Scientology is his family's religion.[6] About his personal views, Gaiman has stated, "I think we can say that God exists in the DC Universe. I would not stand up and beat the drum for the existence of God in this universe. I don't know, I think there's probably a 50/50 chance. It doesn't really matter to me."[12]

Gaiman was able to read at the age of four. He said, "I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school, they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them—which would mean that I'd know what was coming up because I'd read it."[13] When he was about 10 years old, he read his way through the works of Dennis Wheatley; The Ka of Gifford Hillary and The Haunting of Toby Jugg made a special impact on him.[14]

Another work that made a particular impression was J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which he got from his school library. Although they only had the first two of the novel's three volumes, Gaiman consistently checked them out and read them. He later won the school English prize and the school reading prize, enabling him to finally acquire the third volume.[15] For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. He later recalled that "I admired his use of parenthetical statements to the reader, where he would just talk to you ... I'd think, 'Oh, my gosh, that is so cool! I want to do that! When I become an author, I want to be able to do things in parentheses.' I liked the power of putting things in brackets."[15] Narnia also introduced him to literary awards, specifically the Carnegie Medal, won by the concluding volume in 1956. When Gaiman won the 2010 Medal himself, he said "it had to be the most important literary award there ever was"[16] and "if you can make yourself aged seven happy, you're really doing well – it's like writing a letter to yourself aged seven."[17] Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was another childhood favourite, and "a favourite forever. Alice was default reading to the point where I knew it by heart." He also enjoyed Batman comics.[15]

Gaiman attended Ardingly College in Ardingly, West Sussex

Gaiman was educated at several Church of England schools, including Fonthill School in East Grinstead,[18] Ardingly College (1970–1974), and Whitgift School in Croydon (1974–1977).[19] His father's position as a public relations official of the Church of Scientology was the cause of the seven-year-old Gaiman being forced to withdraw from Fonthill School and return to the school which he had previously attended.[6][20] He lived in East Grinstead for many years, from 1965 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1987.[18]

In the 1970s, he spent three years as an auditor for the Church of Scientology, an unusually high-ranking position given his age.[21] He also sang in a punk rock band Ex Execs, formerly called Chaos.[22]

He met his first wife, Mary McGrath, while she was studying Scientology and living in a house in East Grinstead that was owned by his father. The couple were married in 1985 after having their first child.[6]

## Career

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### Journalism, early writings, and literary influences

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Gaiman has mentioned several writers who have influenced his work, including Mary Shelley,[15][23] Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Dave Sim,[24][25] Alan Moore, Steve Ditko,[26] Will Eisner,[27] Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, John Crowley, Lord Dunsany, G. K. Chesterton and Gene Wolfe.[28][29] A lifetime fan of the Monty Python comedy troupe, he owned a copy of Monty Python's Big Red Book as a teenager.[30] During a trip to France when he was 13, Gaiman became fascinated with the visually fantastic world in the stories of Metal Hurlant, even though he could not understand the words.[31] When he was 19 or 20 years old, he contacted his favourite science fiction writer, R. A. Lafferty, requesting advice on becoming an author and including a Lafferty pastiche he had written. Lafferty sent Gaiman an encouraging and informative letter back, along with literary advice.[32][33]

Gaiman has named Roger Zelazny as the author who influenced him the most.[34][35] Gaiman claims that other authors such as Samuel R. Delany and Angela Carter "furnished the inside of my mind and set me to writing".[34] Gaiman takes inspiration from the folk tales tradition, citing Otta F Swire's book on the legends of the Isle of Skye as his inspiration for The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains.[36]

In the early 1980s, Gaiman pursued journalism, conducting interviews and writing book reviews, as a means to learn about the world and to make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published.[15] He wrote and reviewed extensively for the British Fantasy Society.[37] His first professional short story publication was "Featherquest", a fantasy story, in Imagine magazine in May 1984.[37]

Gaiman frequented the Forbidden Planet comic store at its original location of Number 23, Denmark Street, central London (pictured).

While waiting for a train at London's Victoria Station in 1984, Gaiman noticed a copy of Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, and read it. Moore's approach to comics had such an impact on Gaiman that he later wrote "that was the final straw, what was left of my resistance crumbled. I proceeded to make regular and frequent visits to London's Forbidden Planet shop to buy comics".[29]

In 1984, he wrote his first book, a biography of the band Duran Duran, and co-edited Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with Kim Newman. Although Gaiman thought he had done a terrible job, the book's first edition sold out very quickly. When he went to relinquish his rights to the book, he discovered the publisher had gone bankrupt.[15][38] After this, he was offered a job by Penthouse. He refused the offer.[15]

He also wrote interviews and articles for many British magazines, including Knave. During this, he sometimes wrote under pseudonyms, including Gerry Musgrave, Richard Grey, and "a couple of house names".[39] Gaiman has said he ended his journalism career in 1987 because British newspapers regularly publish untruths as fact.[40][41] In the late 1980s, he wrote Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion in what he calls a "classic English humour" style.[42]

Following this, he wrote the opening of what became his collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the comic novel Good Omens, about the impending apocalypse.[43]

### Comics

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Gaiman discusses The Sandman in 2014

See also: Neil Gaiman bibliography § Comics

After forming a friendship with Alan Moore, who taught him how to write comic scripts,[29][44] Gaiman started writing comic books and picked up Miracleman after Moore finished his run on the series. He continued his professional relationship with Moore by contributing quotations for the supplemental materials in the Watchmen comic book series.[44]

Gaiman and artist Mark Buckingham collaborated on several issues of the series before its publisher, Eclipse Comics, collapsed, leaving the series unfinished. His first published comic strips were four short Future Shocks for 2000 AD in 1986–87. He wrote three graphic novels with his favourite collaborator and long-time friend Dave McKean: Violent Cases, Signal to Noise, and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch. Impressed with his work, DC Comics hired him in February 1987,[45] and he wrote the limited series Black Orchid.[46][47] Karen Berger, who later became head of DC Comics's Vertigo, read Black Orchid and offered Gaiman a job: to re-write an old character, the Sandman, but to put his own spin on him.[15]

The Sandman tells the tale of the ageless, anthropomorphic personification of Dream that is known by many names, including Morpheus. The series began in January 1989 and concluded in March 1996.[48] The various artists who contributed to the series include Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, and Michael Zulli, with lettering by Todd Klein, colours by Daniel Vozzo, and covers by Dave McKean.[15] The series became one of DC's top selling titles, eclipsing even Batman and Superman.[49] The 75 issues of the regular series, along with an illustrated prose text and a special containing seven short stories, have been collected into 12 volumes that remain in print.

In the eighth issue of The Sandman, Gaiman and artist Mike Dringenberg introduced Death, the older sister of Dream, who became as popular as the series' title character.[50] The limited series Death: The High Cost of Living launched DC's Vertigo line in 1993.[51]

Comics historian Les Daniels called Gaiman's work "astonishing" and noted that The Sandman was "a mixture of fantasy, horror, and ironic humor such as comic books had never seen before".[52][53] DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed that "The Sandman became the first extraordinary success as a series of graphic novel collections, reaching out and converting new readers to the medium, particularly young women on college campuses, and making Gaiman himself into an iconic cultural figure."[54]

Gaiman and Jamie Delano were to become co-writers of the Swamp Thing series following Rick Veitch. An editorial decision by DC to censor Veitch's final storyline caused both Gaiman and Delano to withdraw from the title.[55]

Gaiman produced two stories for DC's Secret Origins series in 1989: a Poison Ivy[56] tale drawn by Mark Buckingham and a Riddler[57] story illustrated by Bernie Mireault and Matt Wagner. A story that Gaiman originally wrote for Action Comics Weekly in 1989 was shelved due to editorial concerns but it was finally published in 2000 as Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame.[58]

In 1990, Gaiman wrote The Books of Magic, a four-part mini-series that provided a tour of the mythological and magical parts of the DC Universe through a frame story about an English teenager who discovers that he is destined to be the world's greatest wizard.[59] The miniseries was popular, and sired an ongoing series written by John Ney Rieber.[60]

Gaiman's adaptation of Sweeney Todd, illustrated by Michael Zulli for Stephen R. Bissette's publication Taboo, was stopped when the anthology itself was discontinued.[61]

In the mid-1990s, he also created a number of new characters and a setting that was to be featured in a title published by Tekno Comix. The concepts were then altered and split between three titles set in the same continuity: Lady Justice, Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man, and Teknophage,[62] and tie-ins. Although Gaiman's name appeared prominently as the creator of the characters, he was not involved in writing any of the above-mentioned books.

Gaiman wrote a semi-autobiographical story about a boy's fascination with Michael Moorcock's anti-hero Elric of Melniboné for Ed Kramer's anthology Tales of the White Wolf. In 1996, Gaiman and Kramer co-edited The Sandman: Book of Dreams. Nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Gene Wolfe, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tad Williams, and others.

Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling, Gaiman said:

> One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on Sandman, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I'm writing novels I'm painfully aware that I'm working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You know, you can go back. We have things like The Golden Ass. And you go, well, I don't know that I'm as good as that and that's two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like – I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun.[63]

Gaiman wrote two series for Marvel Comics. Marvel 1602 was an eight-issue limited series published from November 2003 to June 2004 with art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove.[64] The Eternals was a seven-issue limited series drawn by John Romita Jr., which was published from August 2006 to March 2007.[65][66]

In 2009, Gaiman wrote a two-part Batman story for DC Comics to follow Batman R.I.P. titled "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?"[67] a play-off of the classic Superman story "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" by Alan Moore.[68][69] He contributed a twelve-part Metamorpho serial drawn by Mike Allred for Wednesday Comics, a weekly newspaper-style series.[70][71] Gaiman and Paul Cornell co-wrote Action Comics #894 (December 2010), which featured an appearance by Death.[72] In October 2013, DC Comics released The Sandman: Overture with art by J. H. Williams III.[73][74] Gaiman's Angela character was introduced into the Marvel Universe in the last issue of the Age of Ultron miniseries in 2013.[75]

Gaiman oversaw The Sandman Universe, a line of comic books published by Vertigo. The four series — House of Whispers, Lucifer, The Books of Magic, and The Dreaming — were written by new creative teams. The line launched on 8 August 2018.[76][77]

After teaming with Colleen Doran for a series of graphic novel adaptations based on his short stories "Troll Bridge", "Chivalry", and "Snow, Glass, Apples", Gaiman and the Terry Pratchett estate chose Doran to adapt Good Omens into graphic novel form, and to self publish the work via the Pratchett estate's Dunmanifestin label. It was financed on Kickstarter where it became a record-setter in less than a week as the top fan-supported and top-earning comics project in the history of the platform.[78]

### Novels

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See also: Neil Gaiman bibliography § Novels and children's books

Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney discuss Why We Need Fantasy at the British Library on 20 November 2023. Gaiman in 2009

In a collaboration with author Terry Pratchett, best known for his series of Discworld novels, Gaiman's first novel Good Omens was published in 1990. In 2011, Pratchett said that while the entire novel was a collaborative effort and most of the ideas could be credited to both of them, Pratchett did a larger portion of writing and editing if for no other reason than Gaiman's scheduled involvement with Sandman.[79]

The 1996 novelisation of Gaiman's teleplay for the BBC mini-series Neverwhere was his first solo novel. The novel was released in tandem with the television series, though it presents some notable differences from the television series. Gaiman has since revised the novel twice, the first time for an American audience unfamiliar with the London Underground, the second time because he felt unsatisfied with the originals.[80]

In 1999, the first printings of his fantasy novel Stardust were released. The novel has been released both as a standard novel and in an illustrated text edition.[81] This novel was highly influenced by Victorian fairytales and culture.[82]

American Gods became one of Gaiman's best-selling and multi-award-winning novels upon its release in 2001.[83] A special 10th Anniversary edition was released, with the "author's preferred text" 12,000 words longer than the original mass-market editions.[84] Gaiman has not written a direct sequel to American Gods but he has revisited the characters. A glimpse at Shadow's travels in Europe is found in a short story which finds him in Scotland, applying the same concepts developed in American Gods to the story of Beowulf. The 2005 novel Anansi Boys deals with Anansi ('Mr. Nancy'), tracing the relationship of his two sons, one semi-divine and the other an unassuming bookkeeper, as they explore their common heritage. It debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.[85]

In 2002, Gaiman entered the world of children's books with the dark fairy tale Coraline. In 2008 he released a young adult novel, The Graveyard Book. It follows the adventures of a boy named Bod after his family is murdered and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and H. P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.[86] Literary critic Danel Olson defended it as one of the first canonical novels of 21st century Gothic literature.[87] As of late January 2009[update], it had been on The New York Times Bestseller children's list for fifteen weeks.[88]

In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.[89] The novel follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier.[90] Themes include the search for self-identity and the "disconnect between childhood and adulthood".[91] It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London.[92]

In September 2016, Neil Gaiman announced that he had been working for some years on retellings of Norse mythology.[93] Norse Mythology was released in February 2017.[94]

Several of his novels have been published as paperbacks with retro covers by artist Robert McGinnis.[95][96]

### Film and screenwriting

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See also: Neil Gaiman bibliography § Film

Gaiman wrote the 1996 BBC dark fantasy television series Neverwhere. He co-wrote the screenplay for the movie MirrorMask with his old friend Dave McKean for McKean to direct. In addition, he wrote the localised English language script for the anime movie Princess Mononoke, based on a translation of the Japanese script.[97]

After his disappointment with the production limitations of Neverwhere, Gaiman asked his agent to pull him out of an (unnamed) UK television series that was to begin production immediately afterwards. "I didn't want to do it unless I had more control than you get as a writer: in fantasy, the tone of voice, the look and feel, the way something is shot and edited is vital, and I wanted to be in charge of that."[98]

He co-wrote the script for Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf with Roger Avary, a collaboration that has proved productive for both writers.[99] Gaiman has expressed interest in collaborating on a film adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh.[100]

Gaiman on a panel about the Good Omens TV series at New York Comic Con in 2018

He was the only person other than J. Michael Straczynski to write a Babylon 5 script in the series' last three seasons, contributing to the season five episode "Day of the Dead".[97] The series also features a recurring alien race called the Gaim, who resemble the character of Dream and are named after Gaiman.

Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of Nicholson Baker's novel The Fermata for director Robert Zemeckis,[101][102] although the project was stalled while Zemeckis made The Polar Express and the Gaiman-Roger Avary-penned Beowulf film.

Neil Gaiman was featured in the History Channel documentary Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked.[103]

Several of Gaiman's original works have been optioned or greenlighted for film adaptation, most notably Stardust, which premiered in August 2007 and stars Charlie Cox, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes and Mark Strong, directed by Matthew Vaughn. A stop-motion version of Coraline was released on 6 February 2009, directed by Henry Selick and starring the voices of Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher.[6]

In 2007, Gaiman announced that after ten years in development, the feature film of Death: The High Cost of Living would finally begin production with a screenplay by Gaiman that he would direct for Warner Independent. Gaiman said that he agreed to direct the film "with the carrot dangled in front of me that I could direct it. And we'll see if that happens, and if I'm a good director or not."[98] Don Murphy and Susan Montford were named as producers, and Guillermo del Toro was named as the film's executive producer.[104][105] By 2010, it had been reported that the film was no longer in production.[106]

Seeing Ear Theatre performed two of Gaiman's audio theatre plays, "Snow, Glass, Apples", Gaiman's retelling of Snow White, and "Murder Mysteries", a story of heaven before the Fall in which the first crime is committed. Both audio plays were published in the collection Smoke and Mirrors in 1998.[107]

At Guillermo del Toro's request, he rewrote the opening of Hellboy II: The Golden Army to make it look more like a fairy tale.[108]

Gaiman's 2009 Newbery Medal winning book The Graveyard Book will be made into a movie, with Ron Howard as the director.[109]

Gaiman wrote an episode of the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, broadcast in 2011 during Matt Smith's second series as the Doctor.[110] Shooting began in August 2010 for this episode, the original title of which was "The House of Nothing"[111] but which was eventually transmitted as "The Doctor's Wife".[112] The episode won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form).[113][114] Gaiman made his return to Doctor Who with an episode titled "Nightmare in Silver", broadcast on 11 May 2013.[115][116] Gaiman returned to the Whoniverse in 2020 for the web series Doctor Who: Lockdown; he wrote the mini-episode "Rory's Story" which saw Arthur Darvill reprise his role of Rory Williams. Also in 2011, it was announced that Gaiman would be writing the script to a new film version of Journey to the West.[117][118] Gaiman appeared as himself on The Simpsons episode "The Book Job", which was broadcast on 20 November 2011.[119][120][121]

In 2015, Starz greenlighted a series adaptation of Gaiman's novel American Gods. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green wrote and were showrunners for the series.[122] Gaiman received a Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Hugo Award in 2020 for the TV miniseries adaptation of Good Omens, for which he wrote the screenplay.[123] He voiced Gef in the black comedy film Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose, one of the film's titular characters, in 2023.[124]

### Radio

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A six-part radio play of Neverwhere was broadcast in March 2013, adapted by Dirk Maggs for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra. The performance featured James McAvoy as Richard, Natalie Dormer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Bernard Cribbens, and Johnny Vegas.[125]

In September 2014, Gaiman and Terry Pratchett joined forces with BBC Radio 4 to make the first-ever dramatisation of their co-penned novel Good Omens, which was broadcast in December in five half-hour episodes and culminated in an hour-long final apocalyptic showdown.[43] In 2021, Gaiman was cast as Duke Aubrey in an adaptation of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, a novel Gaiman had previously proclaimed one of his favourites (and to which he had contributed a foreword for an edition by Cold Spring Press), for BBC Radio 4.[126]

### Public performances

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Gaiman frequently performs public readings from his stories and poetry, and has toured with his wife, musician Amanda Palmer. In some of these performances he has also sung songs, in "a novelist's version of singing",[127] despite having "no kind of singing voice".[128]

In 2015, Gaiman delivered a 100-minute lecture for the Long Now Foundation entitled How Stories Last about the nature of storytelling and how stories persist in human culture.[129] In April 2018, Gaiman made a guest appearance on the television show The Big Bang Theory, and his tweet about the show's fictional comic book store became the central theme of the episode "The Comet Polarization".[130]

### Intellectual property disputes

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In 1993, Gaiman was contracted by Todd McFarlane to write a single issue of Spawn, for Image Comics, which McFarlane had recently co-founded. McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, and Dave Sim each write a single issue.[131][132]

In issue No. 9 of the series, Gaiman introduced the characters Angela, Cogliostro, and Medieval Spawn. Prior to this issue, Spawn was an assassin who worked for the government and came back as a reluctant agent of Hell but had no real direction in his actions. In Angela, a cruel and malicious angel, Gaiman introduced a character who threatened Spawn's existence, as well as providing a moral opposite. Cogliostro was introduced as a mentor character for exposition and instruction, providing guidance. Medieval Spawn introduced a history and precedent that not all Spawns were self-serving or evil, giving additional character development to Malebolgia, the demon that creates Hellspawn.[131][132]

As intended, all three characters were used repeatedly throughout the next decade by Todd McFarlane within the wider Spawn universe.[133] In papers filed by Gaiman in early 2002, however, he claimed that the characters were jointly owned by their scripter (himself) and artist (McFarlane), not merely by McFarlane in his role as the creator of the series.[131][132] Disagreement over who owned the rights to a character was the primary motivation for McFarlane and other artists to form Image Comics (although that argument related more towards disagreements between writers and artists as character creators).[134] As McFarlane used the characters without Gaiman's permission or royalty payments, Gaiman believed his copyrighted work was being infringed upon, which violated their original oral agreement. McFarlane initially agreed that Gaiman had not signed away any rights to the characters, and negotiated with Gaiman to effectively "swap" McFarlane's interest in the character Marvelman.[135] McFarlane had purchased an interest in the character when Eclipse Comics was liquidated while Gaiman was interested in being able to continue his aborted run of the Marvelman title. McFarlane later changed his initial position, claiming that Gaiman's work had only been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's creations entirely. The presiding judge, however, ruled against their agreement being work for hire, based in large part on the legal requirement that "copyright assignments must be in writing."[136]

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court ruling in February 2004[137] granting joint ownership of the characters to Gaiman and McFarlane. On the specific issue of Cogliostro, presiding Judge John C. Shabaz proclaimed, "The expressive work that is the comic-book character Count Nicholas Cogliostro was the joint work of Gaiman and McFarlane—their contributions strike us as quite equal—and both are entitled to ownership of the copyright".[138] Similar analysis led to similar results for the other two characters, Angela and Medieval Spawn.

This legal battle was brought by Gaiman and the specifically formed Marvels and Miracles, LLC, which Gaiman had previously created to help sort out the legal rights surrounding Marvelman. Gaiman had written Marvel 1602 in 2003 to help fund this project[139] and all of Gaiman's profits for the original issues of the series were donated to Marvels and Miracles.[139] The rights to Marvelman were subsequently purchased, from original creator Mick Anglo, by Marvel Comics in 2009.[140]

Gaiman returned to court again over the Spawn characters Dark Ages Spawn, Domina, and Tiffany, claiming that they were "derivative of the three he co-created with McFarlane."[141] The judge ruled that Gaiman was right in these claims as well and gave McFarlane until the beginning of September 2010 to settle the matter.[142]

## Sexual assault and misconduct allegations

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In July 2024, five women accused Gaiman of sexual assault and abuse. All five were interviewed on the Tortoise Media podcast Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. One, using the pseudonym "Claire", was also interviewed by The New York Times.[143] Claire described non-consensual kissing and groping by Gaiman after meeting him at a book tour event, with Gaiman making a $60,000 payment to her in August 2022.[143] A woman identified as "K", who also first met Gaiman at a book signing, said that during their relationship he subjected her to painful sex that she "neither wanted nor enjoyed".[21][144]

Scarlett Pavlovich, a former nanny for Gaiman and Palmer's child, alleges that Gaiman sexually assaulted her within hours of their first meeting in February 2022.[144] Pavlovich recalled that he said "Amanda told me I couldn't have you" after the assault; according to one of Palmer's friends, Palmer had previously told Gaiman "You could really hurt this person and break her; keep your hands off of her". She said that Gaiman had anal sex with her in the presence of his son.[21]

A former tenant of Gaiman's named Caroline Wallner alleges that he demanded sexual favours in exchange for being allowed to continue living on his property.[21][145] Wallner says that on one occasion Gaiman grabbed her hand and placed it on his penis while his young son was asleep in the same bed.[21] In 2021, Wallner, her ex-husband, and Gaiman signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), and Gaiman paid Wallner $275,000. In early 2025, Gaiman and Wallner both requested arbitration, the dispute resolution method mandated by the NDA, each accusing the other of violating the agreement.[146]

The writer Julia Hobsbawm accused Gaiman of "an aggressive, unwanted pass" and described how Gaiman pushed her onto a sofa and French kissed her in 1986.[145][147]

In September 2024, Disney halted production on the film adaptation of The Graveyard Book due to a variety of factors, including the sexual assault allegations against Gaiman.[148][149][143] That same month, production on season three of Good Omens was put on hold; Gaiman ultimately left the project in October.[150][151]

In January 2025, the New York magazine published a cover story detailing the allegations against Gaiman. This article, which was published online on Vulture, included interviews with four of the women who had previously spoken to Tortoise Media, as well as four more women.[21][152] Later the same month, Dark Horse Comics announced that they would cut ties with Gaiman over the allegations, including cancelling his ongoing comic adaptation of Anansi Boys.[153] Gaiman was also dropped as a client by his agent Casarotto Ramsay.[154]

In February 2025, Scarlett Pavlovich filed three federal lawsuits in the US that alleged human trafficking under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, alongside formal allegations of sexual assault and coercion. One named Gaiman and Palmer as co-defendants and two were against Palmer alone, seeking at least US$7 million in damages.[3][155] In his response to the lawsuit, Gaiman claimed that the American court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case because the alleged assaults happened in New Zealand, and asked for the case to be dismissed.[156] Gaiman also accused Pavlovich of lying, presenting text messages in which she appeared to confirm that no sexual abuse had taken place, and claimed that police in New Zealand had already investigated her claims and found them to be false.[157]

Gaiman has denied engaging in non-consensual sex, and dismissed Hobsbawm's allegations as his misreading a situation.[145][147] Gaiman's representatives claim that Wallner initiated their sexual encounters and that none of these occurred in the presence of Gaiman's child.[21] In a blog post responding to coverage of the allegations against him, Gaiman said there were "moments I half-recognise and moments I don't". He denies engaging in any non-consensual sexual activity, but said he could have "done so much better" and was "trying to do the work needed".[158][159][160]

## Personal life

[edit]

Gaiman and wife Amanda Palmer in Vienna, 2011

Gaiman moved near Menomonie, Wisconsin, in 1992 to be closer to the family of his then-wife, Mary McGrath, with whom he has three children.[15][161] Gaiman has also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[162][161] He was close friends with fellow author Terry Pratchett until the latter's death in 2015.[163] Gaiman met Amanda Palmer in 2008,[21] and the two entered a relationship in 2009,[164] marrying in 2011.[165] They have one son together.[21] The two had an open marriage,[166] and encouraged one another to have affairs,[21] including with fans of their work.[21]

Gaiman, Palmer and their son moved to New Zealand in March 2020. Weeks later, their marriage collapsed and Gaiman left the country,[21] travelling from New Zealand to his holiday home on the Isle of Skye, which broke COVID-19 lockdown rules. Ross, Skye and Lochaber MP Ian Blackford described Gaiman's behaviour as unacceptable and dangerous.[167] Gaiman published an apology on his website, saying he had endangered the local community.[168] After Gaiman's departure, Palmer announced on Patreon that she and Gaiman had separated.[164] Gaiman stated the split was "my fault, I'm afraid", and requested privacy. The couple later released a joint statement clarifying that they were not getting divorced,[169] reconciled in 2021,[170][171] but confirmed they would divorce in a November 2022 joint statement.[172][173] As of January 2025[update], in the fifth year of proceedings, negotiations had become "ugly", with Palmer moving in with her parents due to financial difficulties.[21]

### Blog and social media

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In February 2001, when Gaiman had completed writing American Gods, his publishers set up a promotional website featuring a weblog in which Gaiman described the day-to-day process of revising, publishing, and promoting the novel. After the novel was published, the website evolved into a more general Official Neil Gaiman Website.[174] Gaiman generally posts to the blog describing the day-to-day process of being Neil Gaiman and writing, revising, publishing, or promoting whatever the current project is. He also posts reader emails and answers questions, which gives him unusually direct and immediate interaction with fans. One of his answers on why he writes the blog is "because writing is, like death, a lonely business."[175] The original American Gods blog was extracted for publication in the NESFA Press collection of Gaiman miscellany, Adventures in the Dream Trade.[176] To celebrate the seventh anniversary of the blog, the novel American Gods was provided free of charge online for a month.[177]

Gaiman joined Twitter in 2008. In 2013, Gaiman was named by IGN as one of "The Best Tweeters in Comics", describing his posts as "sublime".[178]

### Other personal relationships

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Gaiman is godfather to Tori Amos's daughter Tash,[179][180] and wrote a poem called "Blueberry Girl" for Tori and Tash.[181] The poem was adapted into a book by illustrator Charles Vess.[182] Gaiman read the poem aloud to an audience at the Sundance Kabuki Theater in San Francisco on 5 October 2008 during his book reading tour for The Graveyard Book.[183] It was published in March 2009 with the title Blueberry Girl.

### Advocacy

[edit]

In 2016, Gaiman, as well as several celebrities, appeared in the video "What They Took With Them", from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to help raise awareness of the issue of global refugees.[184][185]

Gaiman is a supporter of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and has served on its board of directors.[186] In 2013, Gaiman was named co-chair of the organization's newly formed advisory board.[187]

In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gaiman supported Ukraine by announcing on Twitter that he does not want to renew contracts with Russian publishers.[188] Gaiman also encouraged donating to Ukrainian refugees.[189][190]

In 2023, Gaiman signed an open letter addressed to Russian president Vladimir Putin, alongside over 100 other public figures, calling for the release of Russian prisoner Alexei Navalny.[191][192]

## Literary allusions

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Gaiman's work is known for its use of allusions.[193] Meredith Collins, for instance, has commented upon the degree to which his novel Stardust depends on allusions to Victorian fairy tales and culture.[194] In The Sandman, literary figures and characters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modeled on G. K. Chesterton, and both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream[195] and The Tempest. The comic also draws from numerous mythologies.[citation needed]

Analyzing Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, bibliographer and librarian Richard Bleiler detects patterns of and allusions to the Gothic novel, from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. He concludes that Gaiman is "utilizing works, characters, themes, and settings that generations of scholars have identified and classified as Gothic... [yet] subverts them and develops the novel by focusing on the positive aspects of maturation, concentrating on the values of learning, friendship, and sacrifice."[196] Regarding another work's assumed connection and allusions to this form, Gaiman himself quipped: "I've never been able to figure out whether Sandman is a gothic."[197]

Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works, often to the exclusion of his collaborators.[198] However, Smith's viewpoint is in the minority: to many, if there is a problem with Gaiman's scholarship and intertextuality it is that "... his literary merit and vast popularity have propelled him into the nascent comics canon so quickly that there is not yet a basis of critical scholarship about his work."[199]

David Rudd takes a more generous view in his study of the novel Coraline, where he argues that the work plays and riffs productively on Sigmund Freud's concept of Unheimlich ("the Uncanny").[200]

Though Gaiman's work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces,[201] Gaiman says that he started reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces but refused to finish it: "I think I got about halfway through The Hero with a Thousand Faces and found myself thinking if this is true – I don't want to know. I really would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."[202]

## Awards and honours

[edit]

Awards for Neil Gaiman  Work | Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref.

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Ghastly Beyond Belief

(with Kim Newman)

| 1986 Locus Award | Non-Fiction/Reference  | Nominated  | [203]
Violent Cases

(with Dave McKean)

| 1988 Eagle Awards | Favourite Comic Album-British Section  | Won  |
Good Omens

(with Terry Pratchett)

| 1991 Locus Award  | Fantasy Novel  | Nominated  |
1990 HOMer Award  | Fantasy Novel  | Nominated  | [204]
1991 World Fantasy Award | Novel  | Nominated  |
2000 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Novel  | Nominated  |
2012 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Translated Novel/Collection  | Won  |
2023 Audie Awards | Fantasy  | Nominated  |
2023 Audie Awards  | Audio Drama  | Nominated  |
Good Omens (TV Series)  | 2020 Hugo Award | Dramatic Presentation - Long Form  | Won  |
Good Omens (TV Series), Ep: "Hard Times"  | 2020 Ray Bradbury Award |  | Won  |
The Sandman | 1989 Eagle Awards  | Favourite Writer - American Section  | Won  |
1990 Eagle Awards  | Favourite Writer - American Section  | Won  |
1991 Harvey Awards | Best Writer  | Won  |
1991 Eisner Awards | Best Writer  | Won  |
1991 Eisner Awards  | Continuing Series  | Won  |
1992 Harvey Awards  | Best Writer  | Won  |
1992 Eisner Awards  | Continuing Series  | Won  |
1993 Harvey Awards  | Continuing or Limited Series  | Won  |
1993 Eisner Awards  | Continuing Series  | Won  |
1993 Bram Stoker Award | Other Media  | Nominated  |
1996 Eisner Awards  | Best Writer  | Nominated  |
2021 British Book Awards | Audiobook of the Year  | Nominated  |
The Sandman (TV series)  | 2023 Dragon Awards | Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series  | Won  |
The Sandman (TV Series: Season One) (as writer)  | 2023 Ray Bradbury Award  |  | Finalist  |
Sandman: The Doll's House | 1991 Eisner Awards  | Graphic Album: Reprint  | Won  |
The Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream

(with Charles Vess)

| 1991 World Fantasy Award  | Short Fiction  | Won  |
The Sandman, Books of Magic & Miracleman | 1992 Eisner Awards  | Best Writer  | Won  |
The Sandman: Season of Mists | 2004 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario |  | Won  |
Sandman: Seasons of Mist (#22 - #28) | 1992 Eisner Awards  | Single Issue/One-Shot  | Won  |
Miracleman & The Sandman | 1993 Eisner Awards  | Best Writer  | Won  |
Sandman #39: Soft Places | 1993 Eisner Awards  | Single Issue/One-Shot  | Nominated  |
Sandman #40: The Parliament of Rooks | 1993 Eisner Awards  | Single Issue/One-Shot  | Nominated  |
Signal to Noise

(with Dave McKean)

| 1993 Eisner Awards  | Graphic Album: New  | Won  |
The Sandman & Death: The High Cost of Living | 1994 Eisner Awards  | Best Writer  | Won  |
Death: The Time of Your Life | 1997 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book |  | Won  |
1997 Eisner Awards  | Best Writer  | Nominated  |
Sandman #50: Ramadan | 1994 Eisner Awards  | Single Issue/One-Shot  | Nominated  |
Troll Bridge | 1994 World Fantasy Award  | Short Fiction  | Nominated  |
Angels and Visitations | 1994 World Fantasy Award  | Collection  | Nominated  |
Sandman: World's End | 1996 British Fantasy Award | Anthology/Collection  | Nominated  |
The Sandman: Book of Dreams

(with Edward E. Kramer)

| 1996 International Horror Guild Award | Anthology  | Nominated  |
1997 British Fantasy Award  | Anthology/Collection  | Nominated  |
Sandman #75: The Tempest | 1997 Eisner Awards  | Single Issue/One-Shot  | Nominated  |
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions | 1998 Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection  | Nominated  |
1999 SF Site Readers Poll  | SF/Fantasy  | Won  | [205]
1999 Locus Award  | Collection  | Nominated  |
2002 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories  | Nominated  | [206]
2004 Geffen Award | Fantasy  | Won  |
Neverwhere | 1998 Mythopoeic Awards | Adult Literature  | Nominated  |
1999 SF Site Readers Poll  | SF/Fantasy  | 4th Place  | [207]
2008 Audie Awards  | Narration by the Author  | Nominated  |
The Sandman: The Wake | 1998 British Fantasy Award  | Anthology/Collection  | Nominated  |
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters | 1999 Bram Stoker Award  | Illustrated Narrative  | Won  |
2000 Locus Award  | Art Book  | Nominated  |
2000 Eisner Award  | Comics-Related Book  | Won  |
2000 Hugo Award | Related Work  | Nominated  |
Goliath | 1999 HOMer Award  | Short Story  | Nominated  | [208]
Stardust | 1999 Locus Award  | Fantasy Novel  | Nominated  |
1999 Locus Award  | Art Book  | Nominated  |
1999 Mythopoeic Awards  | Adult Literature  | Won  |
2000 Geffen Award  | Fantasy  | Won  |
2000 Alex Awards |  | Won  |
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar | 1999 World Fantasy Award  | Short Fiction  | Nominated  |
The Books of Magic | 1999 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book |  | Nominated  |
American Gods | 2001 International Horror Guild Award  | Novel  | Nominated  | [209]
2001 BSFA Award | Novel  | Nominated  |
2001 Bram Stoker Award  | Novel  | Won  |
2002 Locus Award  | Fantasy Novel  | Won  |
2002 Mythopoeic Awards  | Adult Literature  | Nominated  |
2002 Hugo Award  | Novel  | Won  |
2002 British Fantasy Award  | August Derleth Award  | Nominated  | [210]
2002 World Fantasy Award  | Novel  | Nominated  |
2002 SF Site Readers Poll  | SF/Fantasy  | 3rd Place  | [211]
2003 Nebula Award | Novel  | Won  |
2003 Italia Awards  | International Novel  | 2nd Place  | [212]
2003 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel  | Nominated  | [213]
2003 Geffen Award  | Fantasy  | Won  |
2012 Audie Award  | Audiobook of the Year  | Nominated  |
2012 Audie Awards  | Fiction  | Nominated  |
The Complete American Gods | 2022 Eisner Awards  | Graphic Album: Reprint  | Won  |
Coraline

(with Dave McKean)

| 2002 International Horror Guild Award  | Long Form  | Nominated  |
2002 Bram Stoker Award  | Work for Young Readers  | Won  |
2002 Bram Stoker Award  | Long Fiction  | Nominated  |
2002 BSFA Award  | Short Fiction  | Won  |
2003 Mythopoeic Awards  | Children's Literature  | Nominated  |
2003 World Fantasy Award  | Novella  | Nominated  |
2003 Hugo Award  | Novella  | Won  |
2003 Locus Award  | Young Adult Novel  | Won  |
2003 Audie Awards  | Middle Grade Title  | Nominated  |
2003 SF Site Readers Poll  | SF/Fantasy  | 8th Place  | [214]
2004 Nebula Award  | Novella  | Won  |
2009 Eisner Awards  | Publication for Teens  | Won  |
2023 Audie Awards  | Audio Drama  | Nominated  |
2023 Audie Awards  | Middle Grade Title  | Nominated  |
Coraline: The Graphic Novel

(with P. Craig Russell)

| 2009 Locus Award  | Non-Fiction/Art Book  | Won  |
The Wolves in the Walls

(with Dave McKean)

| 2003 International Horror Guild Award  | Illustrated Narrative  | Nominated  |
2003 Bram Stoker Award  | Work for Young Readers  | Nominated  |
2003 BSFA Award  | Short Fiction  | Won  |
2004 Locus Award  | Non-Fiction/Art  | Nominated  |
2005 Hampshire Book Awards | Illustrated Book Award  | Nominated  |
The Sandman: Endless Nights | 2003 International Horror Guild Award  | Illustrated Narrative  | Nominated  |
2003 Bram Stoker Award  | Illustrated Narrative  | Won  |
2004 Eisner Awards  | Anthology  | Won  |
2004 Locus Award  | Non-Fiction/Art  | Won  |
Death and Venice (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)

(with P. Craig Russell)

| 2004 Eisner Awards  | Short Story  | Won  |
October in the Chair | 2003 World Fantasy Award  | Short Fiction  | Nominated  |
2003 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
A Walking Tour of the Shambles

(with Randy Broecker)

| 2003 Locus Award  | Novelette  | Nominated  |
Murder Mysteries | 2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards | Other Work - Comic Book  | Nominated  | [215]
A Study in Emerald | 2004 Hugo Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
2004 Locus Award  | Novelette  | Won  |
Bitter Grounds | 2004 Locus Award  | Novelette  | Nominated  |
Closing Time | 2004 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
The Monarch of the Glen | 2004 Locus Award  | Novelette  | Nominated  |
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire | 2005 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
Marvel 1602, Volume 1 | 2005 Quill Award | Graphic Novel  | Won  |
The Price (in Creatures in the Night)  | 2005 Eisner Award  | Short Story  | Nominated  |
The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection | 2005 Audie Awards  | Young Listeners' Title  | Nominated  |
The Problem of Susan | 2005 British Fantasy Award | Short Fiction  | Nominated  |
Anansi Boys | 2006 Alex Awards  |  | Won  |
2006 Locus Award  | Fantasy Novel  | Won  |
2006 Mythopoeic Awards  | Adult Literature  | Won  |
2006 British Fantasy Award  | August Derleth Award  | Won  |
2006 Geffen Award  | Fantasy  | Won  |
2006 SF Site Readers Poll  | SF/Fantasy  | Won  | [216]
2007 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel  | Nominated  | [217]
Sunbird | 2006 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
Fragile Things | 2007 Audie Awards  | Short Stories or Collections  | Nominated  |
2007 Locus Award  | Collection  | Won  |
2007 SF Site Readers Poll  | SF/Fantasy  | 6th Place  | [218]
2007 British Fantasy Award  | Collection  | Won  |
2008 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Novel/Collection  | Nominated  |
2010 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories  | Won  |
How to Talk to Girls at Parties | 2007 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
2007 Hugo Award  | Short Story  | Nominated  |
Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1 | 2007 Eisner Awards  | Archival Collection/Project - Comic Books  | Won  |
2007 Eagle Awards | Favourite Reprint Compilation  | Won  |
Absolute Sandman Vol. 2 | 2008 Eagle Awards  | Favourite Reprint Compilation  | Won  |
The Graveyard Book | 2008 Cybils Award | Speculative Fiction: Elementary and Middle Grade  | Won  |
2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Young Adult Novel  | Nominated  |
2008 Black Quill Award  | Dark Genre Novel of the Year  | Nominated  | [219]
2008 The Dracula Society  | Children of the Night Award  | Nominated  | [220]
2009 FantLab's Book of the Year Award  | Novel/Collection  | Nominated  |
2009 Thumbs Up! Award  |  | Honor  | [221]
2009 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award |  | Nominated  |
2009 Newbery Medal |  | Won  |
2009 World Fantasy Award  | Novel  | Nominated  |
2009 Hugo Award  | Novel  | Won  |
2009 Mythopoeic Awards  | Children's Literature  | Nominated  |
2009 Indies Choice Book Awards | Indie Young Adult Buzz Book/Fiction  | Won  |
2009 Locus Award  | Young Adult Novel  | Won  |
2009 British Fantasy Award  | August Derleth Award  | Nominated  | [222]
2009 SF Site Readers Poll  | SF/Fantasy  | 6th Place  | [223]
2009 Audie Awards | Audiobook of the Year  | Won  |
2009 Audie Awards  | Middle Grade Title  | Nominated  |
2009 Booktrust Teenage Prize |  | Won  |
2010 Hampshire Book Awards | Book Award  | Nominated  |
2010 Carnegie Medal for Writing |  | Won  | [224]
2010 Kentucky Bluegrass Award  | Grades 6-8  | Won  | [225]
2011 Evergreen Book Awards  |  | Nominated  | [226]
2015 Audie Awards  | Middle Grade Title  | Won  |
The Witch's Headstone | 2008 Locus Award  | Novelette  | Won  |
InterWorld

(with Michael Reaves)

| 2008 Audie Awards  | Young Adult Title  | Nominated  |
M is for Magic | 2008 Audie Awards  | Young Adult Title  | Nominated  |
Odd and the Frost Giants

(with Brett Helquist)

| 2009 Cybils Award | Speculative Fiction: Elementary and Middle Grade  | Nominated  |
2009 World Fantasy Award  | Novella  | Nominated  |
2010 Audie Awards  | Narration by the Author  | Won  |
2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award  | Translated Novella or Short Story  | Nominated  |
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

(with Andy Kubert)

| 2009 Goodreads Choice Awards | Graphic Novel  | Won  |
2010 Hugo Award  | Graphic Story  | Nominated  |
2010 British Fantasy Award  | Comic/Graphic Novel  | Won  |
Blueberry Girl

(with Charles Vess)

| 2009 Goodreads Choice Awards  | Picture Book  | Won  |
An Invocation of Incuriosity | 2010 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
Stories: All New Tales

(with Al Sarrantonio)

| 2011 Shirley Jackson Award | Anthology  | Won  |
2011 World Fantasy Award  | Anthology  | Nominated  |
2011 Audie Awards  | Short Stories or Collections  | Won  |
2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award  | Anthology  | Nominated  |
Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains | 2011 Shirley Jackson Award  | Novelette  | Won  |
2011 Locus Award  | Novelette  | Won  |
2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award  | Translated Novella or Short Story  | Nominated  |
2015 Publishing Innovation Award | Ebook - Fixed Format/Enhanced: Adult Fiction  | Won  |
2019 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories  | Nominated  |
Instructions

(with Charles Vess)

| 2011 Locus Award  | Art Book  | Nominated  |
The Thing About Cassandra | 2011 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
Crazy Hair | 2011 Hampshire Book Awards | Illustrated Book Award  | Nominated  |
Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" (as writer)

(with Richard Clark)

| 2012 Ray Bradbury Award |  | Won  |
2012 Hugo Award  | Dramatic Presentation - Short Form  | Won  |
And Weep Like Alexander | 2012 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Nominated  |
The Case of Death and Honey | 2012 Locus Award  | Short Story  | Won  |
2012 Anthony Awards | Short Story  | Nominated  |
2012 Edgar Allan Poe Award | Short Story  | Nominated  |
2013 Crime Writers Association  | Short Story Dagger  | Shortlisted  | [227]
Fortunately, the Milk | 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards  | Middle Grade & Children's  | Nominated  | [228]
2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award  | Translated Novella/Short Story  | Nominated  |
The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury | 2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award  | Translated Novella or Short Story  | Nominated  |
The Ocean at the End of the Lane | 2013 British Book Awards | Book of the Year  | Won  |
2013 British Book Awards  | Audiobook of the Year  | Won  |
2013 Goodreads Choice Awards  | Fantasy  | Won  | [229]
2013 Not the Booker Prize |  | Nominated  |
2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award  | Translated Novel/Collection by Foreign Writer  | Nominated  |
2014 Locus Award  | Fantasy Novel  | Won  |
2014 British Fantasy Award  | Robert Holdstock Award  | Nominated  | [230]
2014 Mythopoeic Awards  | Adult Literature  | Nominated  |
2014 World Fantasy Award  | Novel  | Nominated  |
2014 Nebula Award  | Novel  | Nominated  |
2014 Audie Awards  | Fiction  | Nominated  |
2014 Audie Awards  | Narration by the Author  | Nominated  |
2015 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel  | Nominated  | [231]
2015 Geffen Award  | Fantasy  | Won  |
2018 Goodreads Choice Awards  | Best of the Best  | Nominated  | [232]
The Sleeper and the Spindle | 2014 Locus Award  | Novelette  | Won  |
2016 Audie Award  | Young Adult Title  | Nominated  |
2016 Audie Award  | Audio Drama  | Nominated  |
Unnatural Creatures | 2014 Locus Award  | Anthology  | Nominated  |
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances | 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards  | Fantasy  | Won  | [233]
2016 Locus Award  | Collection  | Won  |
The Sandman: Overture

(with Dave Stewart & J. H. Williams III)

| 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards  | Graphic Novels & Comics  | Nominated  | [234]
2016 Hugo Award  | Graphic Story  | Won  |
2016 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional |  | Nominated  |
2016 Dragon Awards | Graphic Novel  | Won  |
Black Dog | 2016 Locus Award  | Novelette  | Won  |
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction | 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards  | Non-Fiction  | Nominated  | [235]
2017 Hugo Award  | Related Work  | Nominated  |
2017 Audie Awards  | Narration by the Author  | Nominated  |
2017 Locus Award  | Non-Fiction  | Nominated  |
Norse Mythology | 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards  | Fantasy  | Nominated  | [236]
2018 British Fantasy Award  | Collection  | Nominated  |
2018 Audie Awards  | Narration by the Author  | Won  |
2018 Locus Award  | Collection  | Nominated  |
2020 Tähtifantasia Award |  | Nominated  |
The Mushroom Hunters | 2018 Rhysling Award | Long Poem  | Won  |
Cinnamon | 2019 Hampshire Books Awards  | Illustrated Book Award  | Nominated  |
Snow, Glass, Apples | 2019 Bram Stoker Award  | Graphic Novel  | Won  |
2020 Eisner Awards  | Adaption from Another Medium  | Won  |
The Sandman: Act II | 2022 British Book Awards  | Fiction Audiobook of the Year  | Nominated  |
2022 Audie Awards  | Fantasy  | Nominated  |
Chivalry

(with Colleen Doran)

| 2023 Locus Award  | Illustrated and Art Book  | Won  |
2023 Eisner Awards  | Adaptation from Another Medium  | Won  |
2023 Excelsior Award  | Red (14 years old & up)  | Shortlisted  | [237]
| 1991 Inkpot Award |  | Won  |
| 1993 Adamson Awards |  | Won  |
| 2002 National Comics Awards | Writer in Comics  | Nominated  |
| 2003 National Comics Awards  | Best Comics Writer Ever  | Nominated  |
| 2004 Eagle Awards  | Roll of Honour  | Won  |
| 2007 Eisner Awards | Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award  | Won  |
| 2007 Comic-Con Icon Award  |  | Won  | [238]
| 2015 James Joyce Award |  | Won  | [239]
| 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature |  | Nominated  |
| 2020 Forry Award  | Lifetime Achievement  | Won  | [240]
| 2023 St. Louis Literary Award |  | Won  |

Note: Gaiman's Carnegie Medal win for The Graveyard Book made him the first author to have won both the Carnegie & Newbery Medals for the same work.[241]

Other Awards & Honours

* 3- time winner (1991/1992/1993) of the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards for "Favorite Writer".

* 3-time (1992/1993/1994) winner of the Don Thompson Awards for "Best Achievement by a Writer".

* 1997 Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Defender of Liberty award[242]

* 2005 The William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie, nomination for MirrorMask. The other nominated films were Green Street Hooligans, Nine Lives, Up for Grabs, and Opie Gets Laid.[243]

* 2007 & 2008: Winner of the Galaxy Award for Most Popular Foreign Writer.

* 2010 Gaiman was selected as the Honorary Chair of National Library Week by the American Library Association.[244]

* 2012: Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of the Arts[245]

* 2016: University of St Andrews Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters[246]

* 2018: Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.[247]

* 2019: Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award ("celebrat[ing] authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community.") Gaiman was given the award "for advocating for freedom of expression worldwide and inspiring countless writers."[248]

* 2020: Children's Literature Lecture Award

* Inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame in 2022.

* 2023: Time’s 100 most influential people in the world list[249]

## Works

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Main article: Neil Gaiman bibliography

## References

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180. ^ Cochrane, Kira (3 December 2024). "Tori Amos on trauma, Trump and Neil Gaiman: 'It's a heartbreaking grief'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
181. ^ "Neil Gaiman's Journal: Blueberry Girls". Journal.neilgaiman.com. 7 July 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
182. ^ "News from Green Man Press " Blog Archive " Blueberry Wanderings". Green Man Press. 6 July 2007. Archived from the original on 25 May 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
183. ^ "Neil Gaiman's Journal: Chapter Six in San Francisco yesterday". Journal.neilgaiman.com. 6 October 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
184. ^ "2016 Stories – #WithRefugees". Unhcr. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
185. ^ "What They Took With Them – #WithRefugees". Unhcr. 7 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
186. ^ "Neil Gaiman Talks Sandman, CBLDF on NPR". 19 September 2003. Archived from the original on 14 August 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
187. ^ "CBLDF Announces Advisory Board". ICv2. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
188. ^ Gaiman, Neil [@neilhimself] (5 March 2022). "I'm trying to find out right now what Russian contracts I control and where they are in the publishing cycle. I would not want to renew them while Putin and this administration was in power, that is for certain" (Tweet). Retrieved 12 March 2022 – via Twitter.
189. ^ Gaiman, Neil [@neilhimself] (3 March 2022). "1 million refugees in one week. That's how many people have been forced to flee into neighbouring countries from Ukraine. If you do just one thing today, please donate to @Refugees..." (Tweet). Retrieved 12 March 2022 – via Twitter.
190. ^ "Killing, Gaiman, Evaristo: writers from around the world call for donations for Ukrainian refugees". chytomo.com. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
191. ^ "A letter to Vladimir Putin: Release Alexei Navalny". The Economist. 28 April 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
192. ^ "Free Navalny! Western public figures sign open letter demanding Alexey Navalny's immediate release". Novaya Gazeta Europe. 28 April 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
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194. ^ Collins, Meredith. "Fairy and Faerie: Uses of the Victorian in Neil Gaiman's and Charles Vess's Stardust" ImageTexT 4.1.
195. ^ See this detailed analysis.
196. ^ Bleiler, Richard (2011). "Raised by the Dead: The Maturational Gothic of Neil Gaiman's _The Graveyard Book_". In Olson, Danel (ed.). 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 (1st ed.). Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press. pp. 269–278\. ISBN 9780810877283.
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198. ^ Smith, Clay. "Get Gaiman?: PolyMorpheus Perversity in Works by and about Neil Gaiman" ImageTexT 4.1.
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201. ^ See Stephen Rauch, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth, Wildside Press, 2003
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204. ^ "Sfadb: HOMer Awards 1991".
205. ^ "Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 1999".
206. ^ "2002 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
207. ^ "Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 1999".
208. ^ "Sfadb: HOMer Awards 2000".
209. ^ ":: Ihg :: International Horror Guild :: Ihg ::".
210. ^ "Sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2002".
211. ^ "Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2002".
212. ^ "Italcon | Premio Italia".
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215. ^ "Parked Domain name on Hostinger DNS system". Archived from the original on 14 July 2015.
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217. ^ "2007 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
218. ^ "Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 2007".
219. ^ "Dark Scribe Magazine - 2nd Annual - Nominees".
220. ^ "The Children of the Night Award".
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226. ^ "Evergreen Book Award - Past Winners & Booktalks".
227. ^ "The Case of Death and Honey".
228. ^ "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Middle Grade & Children's!".
229. ^ "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Fantasy!".
230. ^ "2014 Award Winners & Nominees".
231. ^ "2015 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire".
232. ^ "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best of the Best!".
233. ^ "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Fantasy!".
234. ^ "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Graphic Novels & Comics!".
235. ^ "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Nonfiction!".
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## External links

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Neil Gaiman at Wikipedia's sister projects

* Media from Commons
* Quotations from Wikiquote
* Data from Wikidata

* Official website
* Works by Neil Gaiman at Open Library
* Neil Gaiman in conversation with Tom Chatfield in Prospect magazine, 2010
* Appearances on C-SPAN
* Neil Gaiman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
* Neil Gaiman at the Grand Comics Database
* Neil Gaiman at IMDb

* v
* t
* e

Neil Gaiman bibliography

Novels|

* Good Omens
* Neverwhere
* Stardust
* The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
* American Gods
* Coraline
* Anansi Boys
* InterWorld
* Odd and the Frost Giants
* The Graveyard Book
* The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Short story
collections|

* Angels and Visitations
* Smoke and Mirrors
* Fragile Things
* M Is for Magic
* A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff
* Trigger Warning

Picture books|

* The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
* The Wolves in the Walls
* Blueberry Girl
* Crazy Hair

Short fiction|

* "Murder Mysteries"
* "We Can Get Them for You Wholesale"
* "Snow, Glass, Apples"
* "How to Talk to Girls at Parties"
* "A Study in Emerald"
* "I, Cthulhu"

Comic books and
graphic novels|

* Violent Cases
* Black Orchid
* character
* The Sandman
* Death of the Endless
* Dream
* Lucifer
* Signal to Noise
* Marvelman
* The Books of Magic
* The Last Temptation
* Angela
* Death: The High Cost of Living
* The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch
* Sandman Midnight Theatre
* Lady Justice
* Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man
* Death: The Time of Your Life
* Midnight Days
* "Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame"
* The Sandman: Endless Nights
* Marvel 1602
* Eternals
* "Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?"

Screenplays and
adaptations|

* Neverwhere
* Babylon 5
* "Day of the Dead"
* A Short Film About John Bolton
* MirrorMask
* Stardust
* Beowulf
* Coraline
* Doctor Who
* "The Doctor's Wife"
* "Nightmare in Silver"
* Lucifer (TV series)
* American Gods (TV series)
* How to Talk to Girls at Parties
* Good Omens (TV series)
* The Sandman (TV series)
* Dead Boy Detectives (TV series)
* Anansi Boys (TV series)

Miscellaneous|

* Ghastly Beyond Belief
* Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
* The Sandman: Book of Dreams
* A Walking Tour of the Shambles
* Two Plays for Voices
* Kirby: King of Comics (introduction)
* Neverwhere (radio play)
* 8in8 (lyrics)
* Where's Neil When You Need Him?
* InterWorld series
* Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
* Norse Mythology

Franchises based on Neil Gaiman's works

* v
* t
* e

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Publications|

| Collections|

* Preludes & Nocturnes
* The Doll's House
* Dream Country
* Season of Mists
* A Game of You
* Fables & Reflections
* Brief Lives
* Worlds' End
* The Kindly Ones
* The Wake

|

* The Dream Hunters
* Endless Nights
* Overture

Characters|

| The Endless|

* Death
* Dream

|

Dreams|

* Matthew Cable
* Cain and Abel
* Corinthian

Mortals|

* John Constantine
* Dr. John Dee
* Wesley Dodds
* Element Girl
* Hob Gadling
* Hector Hall
* Prez
* Lyta Trevor-Hall

Angels and Demons|

* Lucifer
* Mazikeen

Faire Folk|

* Titania

Spin-offs|

* Death: The High Cost of Living
* Book of Dreams
* Death: The Time of Your Life
* Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
* The Little Endless Storybook
* Death: At Death's Door
* The Sandman Companion
* The Dreaming
* Sandman Midnight Theatre
* Lucifer
* House of Mystery
* Dead Boy Detectives
* Petrefax
* The Sandman Universe

Adaptations|

* Sandman: 24 Hour Diner
* Constantine (TV series)
* John Constantine
* Crisis on Infinite Earths
* Lucifer (TV series)
* Lucifer Morningstar
* The Sandman (podcast)
* The Sandman (TV series)
* Dead Boy Detectives (TV series)

* Category

* v
* t
* e

Neil Gaiman's Coraline

Film|

* Coraline
* soundtrack

Theatre|

* 2009 musical
* 2018 opera

Other|

* Video game
* Coraline's Curious Cat Trail

Category

Awards for Neil Gaiman

* v
* t
* e

Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

1987–2000|

* Misery by Stephen King and Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon (1987)
* The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (1988)
* Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (1989)
* Mine by Robert R. McCammon (1990)
* Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon (1991)
* Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone (1992)
* The Throat by Peter Straub (1993)
* Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder (1994)
* Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (1995)
* The Green Mile by Stephen King (1996)
* Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner & George Guthridge (1997)
* Bag of Bones by Stephen King (1998)
* Mr. X by Peter Straub (1999)
* The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon (2000)

2000–2009|

* American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2001)
* The Night Class by Thomas Piccirilli (2002)
* Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub (2003)
* In the Night Room by Peter Straub (2004)
* Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob and Creepers by David Morrell (2005)
* Lisey's Story by Stephen King (2006)
* The Missing by Sarah Langan (2007)
* Duma Key by Stephen King (2008)
* Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan (2009)
* A Dark Matter by Peter Straub (2010)

2011–2020|

* Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney (2011)
* The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2012)
* Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (2013)
* Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem (2014)
* A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul G. Tremblay (2015)
* The Fisherman by John Langan (2016)
* Ararat by Christopher Golden (2017)
* The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay (2018)
* Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback (2019)
* The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (2020)

2021-2030|

* My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (2021)
* The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (2022)
* The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (2023)

* v
* t
* e

Eisner Award for Best Writer

* Alan Moore (1988)
* Alan Moore (1989)
* Neil Gaiman (1991)
* Neil Gaiman (1992)
* Neil Gaiman (1993)
* Neil Gaiman (1994)
* Alan Moore (1995)
* Alan Moore (1996)
* Alan Moore (1997)
* Garth Ennis (1998)
* Kurt Busiek (1999)
* Alan Moore (2000)
* Alan Moore (2001)
* Brian Michael Bendis (2002)
* Brian Michael Bendis (2003)
* Alan Moore (2004)
* Brian K. Vaughan (2005)
* Alan Moore (2006)
* Ed Brubaker (2007)
* Ed Brubaker (2008)
* Bill Willingham (2009)
* Ed Brubaker (2010)
* Joe Hill (2011)
* Mark Waid (2012)
* Brian K. Vaughan (2013)
* Brian K. Vaughan (2014)
* Gene Luen Yang (2015)
* Jason Aaron (2016)
* Brian K. Vaughan (2017)
* Tom King / Marjorie Liu (2018)
* Tom King (2019)
* Mariko Tamaki (2020)
* James Tynion IV (2021)
* James Tynion IV (2022)
* James Tynion IV (2023)

* v
* t
* e

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Retro|

* The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White (1939)
* Slan by A. E. van Vogt (1941)
* Beyond This Horizon by Anson MacDonald (1943)
* Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber (1944)
* Shadow Over Mars by Leigh Brackett (1945)
* The Mule by Isaac Asimov (1946)
* Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (1951)
* Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1954)

1950s|

* The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (1953)
* They'd Rather Be Right (aka: The Forever Machine) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley (1955)
* Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein (1956)
* The Big Time by Fritz Leiber (1958)
* A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1959)

1960s|

* Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1960)
* A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1961)
* Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (1962)
* The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1963)
* Here Gather the Stars (aka: Way Station) by Clifford D. Simak (1964)
* The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber (1965)
* Dune by Frank Herbert / ...And Call Me Conrad (aka: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny (1966)
* The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (1967)
* Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (1968)
* Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1969)

1970s|

* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1970)
* Ringworld by Larry Niven (1971)
* To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer (1972)
* The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1973)
* Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1974)
* The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975)
* The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1976)
* Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (1977)
* Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1978)
* Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (1979)

1980s|

* The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (1980)
* The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge (1981)
* Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh (1982)
* Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov (1983)
* Startide Rising by David Brin (1984)
* Neuromancer by William Gibson (1985)
* Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1986)
* Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (1987)
* The Uplift War by David Brin (1988)
* Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh (1989)

1990s|

* Hyperion by Dan Simmons (1990)
* The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (1991)
* Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (1992)
* A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge / Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1993)
* Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1994)
* Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold (1995)
* The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (1996)
* Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1997)
* Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman (1998)
* To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1999)

2000s|

* A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (2000)
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (2001)
* American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2002)
* Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer (2003)
* Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (2004)
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2005)
* Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (2006)
* Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (2007)
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (2008)
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2009)

2010s|

* The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi / The City & the City by China Miéville (2010)
* Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (2011)
* Among Others by Jo Walton (2012)
* Redshirts by John Scalzi (2013)
* Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (2014)
* The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (2015)
* The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (2016)
* The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (2017)
* The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (2018)
* The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (2019)

2020s|

* A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (2020)
* Network Effect by Martha Wells (2021)
* A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (2022)
* Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (2023)
* Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (2024)

* v
* t
* e

Hugo Award for Best Novella

Retro Hugos|

* Who Goes There? by Don A. Stuart (1939)
* "If This Goes On—" by Robert A. Heinlein (1941)
* Waldo by Robert A. Heinlein (1943)
* The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1944)
* Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon (1945)
* Animal Farm by George Orwell (1946)
* The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein (1951)
* A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1954)

1968–1980|

* Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer / Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey (1968)
* Nightwings by Robert Silverberg (1969)
* Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber (1970)
* Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber (1971)
* The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson (1972)
* The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
* The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr. (1974)
* A Song for Lya by George R. R. Martin (1975)
* Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny (1976)
* By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson / Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. (1977)
* Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson (1978)
* The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (1979)
* Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear (1980)

1981–1990|

* Lost Dorsai by Gordon R. Dickson (1981)
* The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson (1982)
* Souls by Joanna Russ (1983)
* Cascade Point by Timothy Zahn (1984)
* Press Enter by John Varley (1985)
* 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny (1986)
* Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg (1987)
* Eye for Eye by Orson Scott Card (1988)
* The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis (1989)
* The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold (1990)

1991–2000|

* The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman (1991)
* Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress (1992)
* Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard (1993)
* Down in the Bottomlands by Harry Turtledove (1994)
* Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick (1995)
* The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele (1996)
* Blood of the Dragon by George R. R. Martin (1997)
* ...Where Angels Fear to Tread by Allen Steele (1998)
* Oceanic by Greg Egan (1999)
* The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis (2000)

2001–2010|

* The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson (2001)
* Fast Times at Fairmont High by Vernor Vinge (2002)
* Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2003)
* The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge (2004)
* The Concrete Jungle by Charles Stross (2005)
* Inside Job by Connie Willis (2006)
* A Billion Eves by Robert Reed (2007)
* All Seated on the Ground by Connie Willis (2008)
* The Erdmann Nexus by Nancy Kress (2009)
* Palimpsest by Charles Stross (2010)

2011–2020|

* The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2011)
* The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson (2012)
* The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson (2013)
* Equoid by Charles Stross (2014)
* (No award given) (2015)
* Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (2016)
* Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (2017)
* All Systems Red by Martha Wells (2018)
* Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (2019)
* This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2020)

2021–present|

* The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (2021)
* A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (2022)
* Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire (2023)
* Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (2024)

* v
* t
* e

Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2001–2020)

* "Different Kinds of Darkness" by David Langford (2001)
* "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick (2002)
* "Falling onto Mars" by Geoffrey A. Landis (2003)
* "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman (2004)
* "Travels with My Cats" by Mike Resnick (2005)
* "Tk'tk'tk" by David D. Levine (2006)
* "Impossible Dreams" by Tim Pratt (2007)
* "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear (2008)
* "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (2009)
* "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh (2010)
* "For Want of a Nail" by Mary Robinette Kowal (2011)
* "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu (2012)
* "Mono no aware" by Ken Liu (2013)
* "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" by John Chu (2014)
* <no award> (2015)
* "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer (2016)
* "Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar (2017)
* "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" by Rebecca Roanhorse (2018)
* "A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" by Alix E. Harrow (2019)
* "As the Last I May Know" by S. L. Huang (2020)

* Complete list
* Retro
* 1955–1960
* 1961–1980
* 1981–2000
* 2001–2020
* 2021–present

* v
* t
* e

Inkpot Award (1990s)

1990|

* Karen Berger
* Bob Burden
* Tom DeFalco
* William Gaines
* Jim Henson
* Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier
* Grant Morrison
* Bob Overstreet
* Mary Reynante
* Bob Schreck
* Ken Steacy
* Rick Sternbach
* Charles Vess

1991|

* Alicia Austin
* Clive Barker
* Dan Barry
* Dan DeCarlo
* Creig Flessel
* Neil Gaiman
* Ted "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
* Keith Giffen
* George Gladir
* Joe Haldeman
* Lynn Johnston
* Carol Kalish
* Don Maitz
* Sheldon Moldoff
* Steve Oliff
* Julie Roloff
* Stan Sakai

1992|

* Carina Burns-Chenelle
* Bob Chapman
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Robin Doig
* Alan Grant
* Bill Griffith
* Ray Harryhausen
* Marc Hempel
* Jim Lee
* Milo Manara
* Scott McCloud
* Todd McFarlane
* Rowena Morrill
* Diane Noomin
* Louise Simonson
* Dick Sprang
* Vernor Vinge
* Mark Wheatley

1993|

* Jim Aparo
* Gary Carter
* Phil Foglio
* Robert Goodwin
* Ferd Johnson
* Don Martin
* Dave McKean
* Clydene Nee
* Paul Norris
* Paul Power
* P. Craig Russell
* Mark Schultz
* Vincent Sullivan
* Michael Whelan
* Roger Zelazny

1994|

* Mike Carlin
* Paul Chadwick
* Al Feldstein
* Stan Goldberg
* Roberta Gregory
* Chad Grothkopf
* Jerry Ordway
* Bud Plant
* Mike Richardson
* John Romita, Jr.
* Richard Rowell
* Lucius Shepard
* Mickey Spillane
* J. Michael Straczynski
* Rumiko Takahashi

1995|

* Roger Corman
* Greg Hildebrandt (Brothers Hildebrandt)
* Tim Hildebrandt (Brothers Hildebrandt)
* Ryoichi Ikegami
* Irv Novick
* Joe Sinnott

1996|

* Donna Barr
* Mort Drucker
* Joe Giella
* Jim Mooney
* Kurt Schaffenberger
* François Schuiten
* David Siegel

1997|

* Dick Ayers
* Steve Bissette
* Terry Brooks
* Bob Haney
* Russ Heath
* Carol Lay
* Michael Moorcock
* Janice Tobias
* George Tuska

1998|

* John Broome
* Eddie Campbell
* Nick Cardy
* David Glanzer
* Fred Guardineer
* Lorenzo Mattotti
* Paul S. Newman
* John Severin
* Joe Simon
* Naoko Takeuchi
* Mark Yturralde

1999|

* Tom Batiuk
* Chuck Cuidera
* Samuel R. Delany
* Arnold Drake
* Sam Glanzman
* Larry Gonick
* Irwin Hasen
* Sue Lord

* Complete list
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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

1970s and 1980s|

* The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (1978)
* Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip (1980)
* Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg (1981)
* The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (1982)
* The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe (1983)
* The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1984)
* Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein (1985)
* Trumps of Doom by Roger Zelazny (1986)
* Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe (1987)
* Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card (1988)
* Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card (1989)

1990s|

* Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card (1990)
* Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin (1991)
* Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper (1992)
* Last Call by Tim Powers (1993)
* The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle (1994)
* Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop (1995)
* Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card (1996)
* A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (1997)
* Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers (1998)
* A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (1999)

2000s|

* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (2000)
* A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (2001)
* American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2002)
* The Scar by China Miéville (2003)
* Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (2004)
* Iron Council by China Miéville (2005)
* Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2006)
* The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner (2007)
* Making Money by Terry Pratchett (2008)
* Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (2009)

2010s|

* The City & the City by China Miéville (2010)
* Kraken by China Miéville (2011)
* A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin (2012)
* The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross (2013)
* The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (2014)
* The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (2015)
* Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2016)
* All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (2017)
* The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (2018)
* Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (2019)

2020s|

* Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (2020)
* The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (2021)
* Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee (2022)
* Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang (2023)
* Witch King by Martha Wells (2024)

* Best Novel (1971–1981)
* Best SF Novel (1980–present)
* Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present)
* Best First Novel (1981–present)
* Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)
* Best Young Adult Book (2003–present)
* Best Novella (1973–present)
* Best Novelette (1975–present)
* Best Short Story (1971–present)

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Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book

2000s|

* Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2003)
* The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (2004)
* A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (2005)
* Pay the Piper by Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple (2006)
* Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett (2007)
* Un Lun Dun by China Miéville (2008)
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2009)

2010s|

* Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (2010)
* Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (2011)
* The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (2012)
* Railsea by China Miéville (2013)
* The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente (2014)
* Half a King by Joe Abercrombie (2015)
* The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett (2016)
* Revenger by Alastair Reynolds (2017)
* Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor (2018)
* Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (2019)

2020s|

* Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee (2020)
* A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (2021)
* Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders (2022)
* Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (2023)
* Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (2024)

* Best Novel (1971–1981)
* Best SF Novel (1980–present)
* Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present)
* Best First Novel (1981–present)
* Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)
* Best Young Adult Book (2003–present)
* Best Novella (1973–present)
* Best Novelette (1975–present)
* Best Short Story (1971–present)

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Locus Award for Best Short Story

1971–1980|

* "The Region Between" by Harlan Ellison (1971)
* "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson (1972)
* "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
* "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison (1974)
* "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975)
* "Croatoan" by Harlan Ellison (1976)
* "Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman (1977)
* "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison (1978)
* "Count the Clock that Tells the Time" by Harlan Ellison (1979)
* "The Way of Cross and Dragon" by George R. R. Martin (1980)

1981–2000|

* "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak (1981)
* "The Pusher" by John Varley (1982)
* "Sur" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1983)
* "Beyond the Dead Reef" by James Tiptree Jr. (1984)
* "Salvador" by Lucius Shepard (1985)
* "With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole" by Harlan Ellison (1986)
* "Robot Dreams" by Isaac Asimov (1987)
* "Angel" by Pat Cadigan (1988)
* "Eidolons" by Harlan Ellison (1989)
* "Lost Boys" by Orson Scott Card (1990)
* "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1991)
* "Buffalo" by John Kessel (1992)
* "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (1993)
* "Close Encounter" by Connie Willis (1994)
* "None So Blind" by Joe Haldeman (1995)
* "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh (1996)
* "Gone" by John Crowley (1997)
* "Itsy Bitsy Spider" by James Patrick Kelly (1998)
* "Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling (1999)
* "macs" by Terry Bisson (2000)

2001–present|

* "The Missing Mass" by Larry Niven (2001)
* "The Bones of the Earth" by Ursula K. Le Guin (2002)
* "October in the Chair" by Neil Gaiman (2003)
* "Closing Time" by Neil Gaiman (2004)
* "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire" by Neil Gaiman (2005)
* "Sunbird" by Neil Gaiman (2006)
* "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" by Neil Gaiman (2007)
* "A Small Room in Koboldtown" by Michael Swanwick (2008)
* "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (2009)
* "An Invocation of Incuriosity" by Neil Gaiman (2010)
* "The Thing About Cassandra" by Neil Gaiman (2011)
* "The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman (2012)
* "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (2013)
* "The Road of Needles" by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
* "The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar (2015)
* "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer (2016)
* "Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar (2017)
* "The Martian Obelisk" by Linda Nagata (2018)
* "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" by P. Djèlí Clark (2019)
* "The Bookstore at the End of America" by Charlie Jane Anders (2020)
* "Little Free Library" by Naomi Kritzer (2021)
* "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" by Sarah Pinsker (2022)
* "Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills (2023)
* "How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub" by P. Djèlí Clark (2024)

* Best Novel (1971–1981)
* Best SF Novel (1980–present)
* Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present)
* Best First Novel (1981–present)
* Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)
* Best Young Adult Book (2003–present)
* Best Novella (1973–present)
* Best Novelette (1975–present)
* Best Short Story (1971–present)

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Nebula Award for Best Novel

1966–1980|

* Dune by Frank Herbert (1966)
* Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1967)
* The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany (1968)
* Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin (1969)
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1970)
* Ringworld by Larry Niven (1971)
* A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg (1972)
* The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1973)
* Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1974)
* The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975)
* The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1976)
* Man Plus by Frederik Pohl (1977)
* Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1978)
* Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (1979)
* The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (1980)

1981–2000|

* Timescape by Gregory Benford (1981)
* The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (1982)
* No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop (1983)
* Startide Rising by David Brin (1984)
* Neuromancer by William Gibson (1985)
* Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1986)
* Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (1987)
* The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy (1988)
* Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold (1989)
* The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1990)
* Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1991)
* Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick (1992)
* Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1993)
* Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1994)
* Moving Mars by Greg Bear (1995)
* The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer (1996)
* Slow River by Nicola Griffith (1997)
* The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre (1998)
* Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman (1999)
* Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (2000)

2001–2020|

* Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (2001)
* The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro (2002)
* American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2003)
* Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (2004)
* Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (2005)
* Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (2006)
* Seeker by Jack McDevitt (2007)
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (2008)
* Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin (2009)
* The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (2010)
* Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (2011)
* Among Others by Jo Walton (2012)
* 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (2013)
* Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (2014)
* Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (2015)
* Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2016)
* All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (2017)
* The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (2018)
* The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (2019)
* A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (2020)

2021–present|

* Network Effect by Martha Wells (2021)
* A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (2022)
* Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang (2023)
* The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (2024)

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Nebula Award for Best Script/Ray Bradbury Award

Nebula Award
for Best Script|

* Soylent Green – Stanley R. Greenberg (1973)
* Sleeper – Woody Allen (1974)
* Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (1975)
* Star Wars – George Lucas (1977)
* The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
* Galaxy Quest – David Howard and Robert Gordon (2000)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai, and Hui-Ling Wang (2001)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2002)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson (2003)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2004)
* Serenity – Joss Whedon (2005)
* Howl's Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (2006)
* Pan's Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro (2007)
* WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Pete Docter (2008)

Ray Bradbury Award
for Outstanding
Dramatic Presentation|

* Terminator 2: Judgment Day – James Cameron (1992)
* Babylon 5 – J. Michael Straczynski (1999)
* 2000X – Tales of the Next Millennia – Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison (2001)
* Joss Whedon (2008)
* District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (2009)
* Inception – Christopher Nolan (2010)
* Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" – Richard Clark and Neil Gaiman (2011)
* Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar (2012)
* Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón (2013)
* Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (2014)
* Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris (2015)
* Arrival – Denis Villeneuve and Eric Heisserer (2016)
* Get Out – Jordan Peele (2017)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (2018)
* Good Omens: "Hard Times" – Neil Gaiman (2019)
* The Good Place: "Whenever You're Ready" – Michael Schur (2020)
* WandaVision – Jac Schaeffer and writing staff (2021)
* Everything Everywhere All at Once \- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Barbie \- Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (2023)

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World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction

1975–2000|

* "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" by Robert Aickman (1975)
* "Belsen Express" by Fritz Leiber (1976)
* "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" by Russell Kirk (1977)
* "The Chimney" by Ramsey Campbell (1978)
* "Naples" by Avram Davidson (1979)
* "Mackintosh Willy" by Ramsey Campbell (1980, tie)
* "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980, tie)
* "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop (1981)
* "The Dark Country" by Dennis Etchison (1982, tie)
* "Do the Dead Sing?" by Stephen King (1982, tie)
* "The Gorgon" by Tanith Lee (1983)
* "Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)" by Tanith Lee (1984)
* "The Bones Wizard" by Alan Ryan (1985, tie)
* "Still Life with Scorpion" by Scott Baker (1985, tie)
* "Paper Dragons" by James Blaylock (1986)
* "Red Light" by David J. Schow (1987)
* "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll (1988)
* "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" by John M. Ford (1989)
* "The Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser (1990)
* "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (1991)
* "The Somewhere Doors" by Fred Chappell (1992)
* "Graves" by Joe Haldeman (1993, tie)
* "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons (1993, tie)
* "The Lodger" by Fred Chappell (1994)
* "The Man in the Black Suit" by Stephen King (1995)
* "The Grass Princess" by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
* "Thirteen Phantasms" by James Blaylock (1997)
* "Dust Motes" by P. D. Cacek (1998)
* "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (1999)
* "The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod (2000)

2001–present|

* "The Pottawatomie Giant" by Andy Duncan (2001)
* "Queen for a Day" by Albert E. Cowdrey (2002)
* "Creation" by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
* "Don Ysidro" by Bruce Holland Rogers (2004)
* "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan (2005)
* "CommComm" by George Saunders (2006)
* "Journey Into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert (2007)
* "Singing of Mount Abora" by Theodora Goss (2008)
* "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (2009)
* "The Pelican Bar" by Karen Joy Fowler (2010)
* "Fossil-Figures" by Joyce Carol Oates (2011)
* "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu (2012)
* "The Telling" by Gregory Norman Bossert (2013)
* "The Prayer of Ninety Cats" by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
* "Do You Like to Look at Monsters?" by Scott Nicolay (2015)
* "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong (2016)
* "Das Steingeschöpf" by G. V. Anderson (2017)
* "The Birding: A Fairy Tale" by Natalia Theodoridou (2018)
* "Like a River Loves the Sky" by Emma Törzs / "Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake" by Mel Kassel (2019)
* "Read After Burning" by Maria Dahvana Headley (2020)
* "Glass Bottle Dancer" by Celeste Rita Baker (2021)
* "(emet)" by Lauren Ring (2022)

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