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Temps (Roc) [Paperback]
Alex Stewart (Author), Neil Gaiman (Author)
Product Description
These stories are all set in a comic strip world where superheroes are common. It is a world in which people are born with paranormal powers, or have bizarre accidents, get bitten by radioactive fauna, come into possession of magic gems or do favours for godlike aliens.
DEVISED BY THE SANDMAN'S NEIL GAIMAN! (WHO PROVIDES ADDITIONAL MATERIAL)
Product Details
* Paperback: 368 pages
* Publisher: RoC (January 8, 1991)
* ISBN-10: 0140145605
* ISBN-13: 978-0140145601
* Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.1 inches
A very quirky book. This is done not to be outright laugh out loud funny, but if you take that sort of Mystery Men style, cross it with Yes Minister or even the My Hero tv show, and inject some of the pathos from the Wild Cards anthology style with many writers, you are somewhere in the ballpark. Power range from the unnoticeable Invisible Boy to a guy who can turn into a giant frog (that can't swim), to the far more powerful human erectile man, and nasty illusion casters.
Temps : 01 Nothing Special - Colin Greenland
Temps : 02 Leaks - David Langford
Temps : 03 Third Person Singular - Liz Holliday
Temps : 04 Frog Day Afternoon - Marcus L. Rowland
Temps : 05 Pitbull Brittan - Jack Yeovil
Temps : 06 The String Man - Graham Higgins
Temps : 07 Someone to Watch Over Me - Alex Stewart
Temps : 08 The Oedipus Effect - Brian M. Stableford
Temps : 09 The College Spirit - Storm Constantine
Temps : 10 The Rose Garden - David V. Barrett
Temps : 11 A Lonely Impulse - Roz Kaveney
About the Author
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films.
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