#CoolArt: New Neil Gaiman Book Cover Art by Leo Nickolls

New cover art by Leo Nickolls for a new reprinting of Neil Gaiman books from UK publisher Headline Books.

The new reissues will be available from Spring 2021.

Cool Art: 'The Ocean At The End Of The Lane' by Leo Nickolls

Cover art by Leo Nickolls for a special limited paperback run of the novel 'The Ocean At The End Of The Lane' by Neil Gaiman. Only available in the UK during Christmas.

Geeky Nerfherder 2nd Anniversary & My 2013 Favourites

It's now two years since I started this blog! And big thanks to everyone that visits here and I hope that you enjoy my posts of pop culture geekery.

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And so it's that time of year, where everybody lists all their favourites of the past year, and I'm no different. I have a big love of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, so I'm always going to be biased towards those genres and I'd say it's been another good year for SF&F output too. I've enjoyed the movies I've seen at the cinema this year, including some classic movies re-released on the big screen like 'The Princess Bride' and the 'Indiana Jones' Trilogy, plus once again, there has been a lot of awesome art inspired by pop culture, and I've even managed to bag a few awesome prints this year too!

This year I've 'discovered' the pulps and developed a new found love for the Golden Age of Science Fiction & Fantasy from the 1930's to the 1950's, as well as the movies, books, comics etc that have been inspired by the stories of the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis A Kline, Leigh Brackett, Robert E Howard, Kenneth Robeson and more, but most of all, I've been enjoying the awesome illustrated art from that era, which I've been serialising on the blog every Monday (and lots more to come too).

But back to the present day, and here is a list of some of my favourite things from 2013.

Book Review: 'The Ocean At The End Of The Lane' by Neil Gaiman

I really enjoyed this. I usually just plod my way through a book, a chapter or two at a time, but not this one. Once I got sucked into the story - a middle aged man who has returned to his old hometown for a funeral, is drawn back to the farm at the end of the lane and as he sits by the pond there he remembers the past of what happened there when he was 7 - I was away and finished the book in just over a weekend (which is very quick for me!).

To me, it's typically Gaiman. Very haunting, sometimes creepy but also very compelling and interesting enough to get lost in the story. It felt more akin to 'The Graveyard Book' than say, 'American Gods' - a young protagonist mixed up in a magical world - and the fact that it started out as a short story that was expanded to novel size (181 pages), could probably partly explain the feeling of it feeling a bit too short too. But the best stories don't always have to be complex or very long, and to me 'Ocean' proves it. It's definitely well worth a read!

**** out of 5

UK Cover Art For Neil Gaiman's 'The Ocean at the End of the Lane' Revealed

Via Facebook, one of my favourite authors, Neil Gaiman, has revealed the cover art for his new adult book 'The Ocean At The End Of The Lane', which will be published June 18th 2013 by Headline Publishing.

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a novel about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us.

Check out both the UK and US cover art for the book below. I think I prefer the US cover art myself. Look forward to reading this!