Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

The US cover of Fragile Things
Author	Neil Gaiman
Country	US, UK
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy
Publisher	William Morrow
Publication date	2006
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	400 pages
ISBN	ISBN 0-06-051522-8

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Gaiman says in the introduction that the original title for the collection was These People Ought to Know Who We Are and Tell That We Were Here, after a word balloon in a Little Nemo in Slumberland strip. In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece. ... Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1887-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearsts New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905- April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911-1913 respectively. ...

Stories and poems included

• "The Mapmaker" - a very short story included in the book's introduction.
• "A Study in Emerald" - a Sherlock Holmes/Cthulhu Mythos pastiche written for the anthology, Shadows Over Baker Street, edited by Gaiman's good friend Michael Reaves
• "The Fairy Reel"
• "October in the Chair"
• "The Hidden Chamber"
• "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire"
• "The Flints of Memory Lane"
• "Closing Time"
• "Going Wodwo"
• "Bitter Grounds"
• "Other People"
• "Keepsakes and Treasures"
• "Good Boys Deserve Favors"
• "The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch"
• "Strange Little Girls"
• "Harlequin Valentine"
• "Locks"
• "The Problem of Susan"
• "Instructions"
• "How Do You Think It Feels?"
• "My Life"
• "Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot" - not present in the British paperback from Headline Review.
• "Feeders and Eaters"
• "Diseasemaker's Croup"
• "In the End"
• "Goliath" - set in the Matrix universe and included with The Matrix Comics Vol. 1
• "Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky" - written for the album Scarlet's Walk, by Gaiman's good friend, Tori Amos
• "How to Talk to Girls at Parties"
• "The Day the Saucers Came"
• "Sunbird" - Gaiman's attempt at writing a story in the style of R. A. Lafferty
• "Inventing Aladdin"
• The Monarch of the Glen - a novella-length sequel to Gaiman's novel, American Gods

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Awards

Fragile Things won the 2007 Locus Award for for Best Collection, and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" won for Best Short Story.^[1] Other Locus Award winners included in this collection are "Sunbird" (2006 short story), "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire" (2005 short story), "A Study in Emerald" (2004 novelette), "Closing Time" (2004 short story), and "October in the Chair" (2003 short story).^[2] The Locus Awards are presented to winners of Locus Magazines annual readers poll, which was established in the early 70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. ...

Also See

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References

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External links

• A Study in Emerald
• How To Talk To Girls At Parties