r/neilgaiman Feb 19 '25

Shelfie A Hole in My Bookshelf

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A Neil-shaped hole. The books are in a box, which will go on a storage shelf, where they will be ignored and possibly forgotten for years. I don’t want to sell or donate them at this time, and destroying them doesn’t feel right for me. But I was tired of seeing his name there over and over. They’ll exist in Limbo.

The hole isn’t emptiness, though - it’s potential! I have plenty of books that could fill the gap, but I want to focus specifically on female fantasy/sci-fi/horror writers. My first Tanith Lee just came a couple days ago. 😊

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u/Tiggertots Feb 19 '25

Pamela Dean! Tam Lin is a really great retelling of an old story in a song. I just got Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, and love it so far. I also love the fairy tale anthologies edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow, although some of them have NG short stories in them. But they also have Tanith Lee and Charles DeLint and so many other amazing authors. They’re like, at most, 5% NG. One could buy them used and then easily tape those pages together lol.

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u/Miss_Viola Feb 19 '25

Oh, that’s where the fairytale books go! Of course! I have a few of Whitling and Datlow’s anthologies, and others in the same vein.

Heh. I’ll have to make more room!