Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel Hugo for American Gods.
His acceptance speech was the usual "thank you"s, but at the end of the speech he paused, he looked at the rocket like it was the first time he REALY saw it, and said:
Damn, he SO deserved it too. That book was one of the best reads I had in years, tasty and rich in a way that this literary gourmand wishes he could some day cook up himself. Except that now he's stolen the exact line *I* would have uttered whilst holding "The Rocket"...if I were ever so fortunate.
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Right Fucking On
Date: 2002-09-05 02:25 pm (UTC)