Free Speculative Fiction Online: Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Winner of 4 Hugos (and nominated for 2 more).

Winner of 2 Nebulas.

Winner of one World Fantasy Award (and nominated for 9 more).

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only! Other awards, including the Retro Hugos, are not covered)

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Award-winning fiction:

With Charles Vess: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sandman #19, 1990)
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 1991.
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A Study in Emerald (Shadows Over Baker Street Anthology, 1993)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2004.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Seventeenth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF of the Year’, 2003 Edition.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

American Gods (Morrow, 2001)
Hugo for Best Novel 2002.
Nebula for Best Novel 2002.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novel 2002.
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Coraline (HarperCollins, 2002)
Hugo for Best Novella 2003.
Nebula for Best Novella 2003.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2003.
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The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins, 2008)
Hugo for Best Novel 2009.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novel 2009.
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Not freely available online! Recommended!

Award-nominated fiction:

This list is limited to the Hugo Awards, the Nebula Awards, and the World Fantasy Awards. See here for further awards.

With Terry Pratchett: Good Omens (Gollancz, 1990)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novel 1991.
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Troll Bridge (Snow White, Blood Red Anthology, 1993)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1994.
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Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar (The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy Anthology, 1998)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Twelfth Edition.
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October in the Chair (Conjunctions #39, 2002)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy 3’.
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Anansi Boys (William Morrow, 2005)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2006.
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Hugo nomination declined.

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How to Talk to Girls at Parties (Fragile Things Collection, 2006)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2007.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume One.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web. Recommended!

Odd and the Frost Giants (Bloomsbury, 2008)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2009.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Morrow, 2013)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novel 2014.
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A novel.

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Other fiction online:

The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Knave, 1984)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on a freely distributable CD.
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We Can Get Them for You Wholesale (Knave Vol. 16 No. 7, 1989)
A sample from this anthology.
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Changes (Smoke and Mirrors Collection, 1998)
Available as part of this anthology.
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Bitter Grounds (Mojo: Conjure Stories Anthology, 2003)
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Feminine Endings (Four Letter Word, February 2008)
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An Invocation of Incuriosity (Songs of the Dying Earth Anthology, 2009)
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The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (Stories Anthology, 2010)
Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Five.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.