Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman · first published 2005
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Anansi Boys is a fantasy novel by English writer Neil Gaiman. In the novel, "Mr. Nancy" — an incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi — dies, leaving twin sons, who in turn discover one another's existence after being separated as young children. The novel follows their adventures as they explore their common heritage. Although it is not a sequel to Gaiman's previous novel American Gods, the character of Mr. Nancy appears in both books. Anansi Boys was published on 20 September 2005 and was released in paperback on 1 October 2006. The book debuted at number one on The New York T
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#1-4 are: Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, The Cyberiad, by Stanisław Lem, and The Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges, and Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman. In no particular order.
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book?” ↗If you like high quality books, Folio Society editions are difficult to beat. I some recent releases bought direct and some older ones from Ebay at home. Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Anansi Boys are particularly lovely, great feeling paper, amazing illustrations, the cover design is incredible, and of course the typography is top notch. From the older releases, I have a few history books - like…
on “Consider Phlebas Published by the Folio Society” ↗One of my all-time favorite novels, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, includes an anecdote: a crow's call wakes up someone who's sleeping outdoors, just as a large cat (a tiger, perhaps) is sneaking up on him. One character suggests the crow was trying…
on “My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack” ↗Dracula, and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. I've been restricting myself to fiction these days, since I get way too engrossed by non-fiction and want to keep it light and fun for a bit :)
on “Ask HN: What are you reading right now?” ↗For fun: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. For figure out a web front end for my REST API: AngularJS by Brad Green & Shyam Seshadri
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading?” ↗Let's say yes. Can Amazon invent a better compression scheme that uses phonemes & UTF-8 text as a cue? Say, something that compactly expresses Neil Gaiman's voice, then just shows the text of Anansi Boys?
on “Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature” ↗…think PHM is an excellent primer on that type of SF for someone who hasn’t read something like it before. My daughter, who never reads hard SF, loved the audiobook. I once commented on Twitter that the Anansi Boys audiobook read by Lenny Henry was better than the book. Neil Gaiman responded, “I agree”.
on “Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read” ↗