Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming: the Reading Agency Lecture, 2013
Telling lies for a living...and why we do it: the Newbery Medal Speech, 2009
Three authors: on Lewis, Tolkien and Chesterton; the MythCon 35 Guest of Honor Speech
The pornography of genre, or the genre of pornography
Ghosts in the machines: some Hallowe'en thoughts
Some reflections on myth (with several digressions onto gardening, comics and fairy tales)
How dare you: on America, and writing about it
the PEN Awards and Charlie Hebdo
What the [very bad swearword] is a children's book, anyway? The Zena Sutherland Lecture
Reflections: on Diana Wynne Jones
Terry Pratchett: an appreciation
Remembering Douglas Adams
Harlan Ellison: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
Banging the drum for Harlan Ellison
On Stephen King, for the Sunday Times
Geoff Notkin: meteorite man
About Kim Newman, with notes on the creation and eventual dissolution of the Peace and Love Corporation
Fritz Leiber: the short stories
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and what science fiction is and does
Of time, and Gully Foyle: Alfred Bester and The Stars My Destination
Samuel R. Delany and The Einstein Intersection
On the fortieth anniversary of the Nebula Awards: a speech, 2005
The Bride of Frankenstein
MirrorMask: an introduction
MirrorMask: a Sundance diary
The nature of the infection: some thoughts on Doctor Who
On comics and films: 2006
Good comics and tulips: a speech
A speech to professionals contemplating alternative employment, given at PROCON, April 1997
"But what has that to do with Bacchus?" Eddie Campbell and Deadface
Confessions: on Astro City and Kurt Busiek
Bone: an introduction, and some subsequent thoughts
Jack Kirby: king of comics
The Simon and Kirby Superheroes
The spirit of seventy-five
Will Eisner: New York stories
The keynote speech for the 2003 Eisner Awards
2004 Harvey Awards speech
The Best American Comics, 2010
Some strangeness in the proportion: the exquisite beauties of Edgar Allan Poe
On The New Annnotated Dracula
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy
From the days of future past: The Country of the Blind and Other Stories, by H.G. Wells
Business as usual, during alterations: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, by Cory Doctorow
The mystery of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown
Concerning dreams and nightmares: the dream stories of H.P. Lovecraft
On The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
Votan and Other Novels by John James
On Viriconium: some notes toward an introduction
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: an introduction
Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore
Art and Artifice by Jim Steinmeyer
The Moth: an introduction
Hi, by the way: Tori Amos
Curious wine: Tori Amos II
Flood: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, They Might Be Giants
Lou Reed, in memoriam: "The Soundtrack to My Life"
Waiting for the man: Lou Reed
Afterword afterword: Evelyn Evelyn
Several things about Charles Vess
The King of Elfland's daughter, Lord Dunsany
The thing of it is: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
On Richard Dadd's The Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke
Make good art. Make good art
The view from the cheap seats: real things. The view from the cheap seats
The Dresden dolls: Hallowe'en 2010
Eight views of Mount Fuji: Beloved Demons and Anthony Martignetti
So many ways to die in Syria now: May 2014
A Slip of the Keyboard: Terry Pratchett.
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