Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 253 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman.

Among his many works, some of my personal favorites include the Sandman series of graphic novels, the fairy tale novel Star Dust, which was adapted into a feature film starring Claire Danes and Michelle Fyfer, and the short stories Snow Glass Apples, a retelling of Snow White from the point of view of the Wicked Queen, and a study in

Emerald, a Sherlock Holmes story set in an alternate version of Victorian London ruled by

Lovecraftian monsters.

And we'll be speaking with Neil today about his novel American Gods.

A TV adaptation of the book will premiere on the Stars Network on April 30th.

And if you're a long-time listener of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, you may remember that back in

episode 100 we listed Stephen King and Neil Gaiman as the two authors we

were most hoping to feature on the show. And here we are, just a quick 153

episodes later and we finally got an interview with Neil Gaiman

so we really hope you enjoy it and if anyone out there knows Stephen King please put in a good

word for us thanks. All right and so now here's our interview with Neil Gaiman.

All right so we're here with Neil Gaiman and welcome to the show.

Hi, thank you so much. Okay so I'm sitting here with the new Folio Society Edition of American Gods, and it's just this beautiful book.

Could you just talk a little bit about how this came about?

Actually, that one, in terms of things that I have had anything to do with is probably the least in the world

because the folio society is this amazing publisher in London and they find books that they consider

classics are important and then they do illustrated editions of them and they

go and find the illustrator and then they also work through the text and do the

best possible version of the text. I noticed that this is a restored edition.

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