尼爾•蓋曼（Neil Gaiman）

當代大師級幻想小說傢，1960年生於英國。尼爾•蓋曼是當代歐美文壇耀眼的新星，也是幻想文學的代名詞，被《文學傳記辭典》譽為十大後現代作傢之一。

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1989年，蓋曼以漫畫《睡魔》開始瞭創作之路。其後，他的創作逐漸涵蓋瞭小說、漫畫、詩歌、劇本等多個領域，代錶作有《美國眾神》《星塵》《好兆頭》《烏有鄉》等。因其作品的獨特風格和想象力，《邁阿密新時報》認為他已經成為“文學界的搖滾明星”；驚悚小說大師斯蒂芬•金則認為他“創作力之豐沃與作品水準之高，既神奇又嚇人”。

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蓋曼的創作以奇幻文學為主，這與他自幼閱讀的大量神話密不可分。如今，在《北歐眾神》中，他追本溯源，迴歸至愛的北歐神話體係，用自己的敘事技巧，與更多人分享閱讀神話的快樂。

THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Bestselling and much loved author Neil Gaiman, whose novel American Gods has been adapted into a major television series, brings vividly to life the stories of Norse mythology that have inspired his own extraordinary writing in this number one Sunday Times bestseller

The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the page - irascible, visceral, playful, passionate - and the tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised by Gaiman's prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are irresistible forces for modern readers and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open fire on a freezing, starlit night.