false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167577137m/25106.jpg 25106 9 The book contains four tales under the banner of "Distant Mirrors", which are about emperors and the nature of power. These issues all take their name from months ("Thermidor", "August", "Three Septembers and a January" and "Ramadan"). Three of the issues making up the "Distant Mirrors" group were published between the "Season of Mists" and "A Game of You" story arcs. The last, "Ramadan", was written contemporaneously, but because of art delays DC published it as Issue #50, after the "Brief Lives" arc. Three other issues appearing in Fables and Reflections, published as the Convergence story "arc", are also single-issue short stories in which Morpheus appears very little. Each of these issues details various characters' meetings with one another, and each is structured as a story within a story (this is a theme to which Gaiman will return in the Worlds' End arc). "Convergence" appeared between the "A Game of You" and "Brief Lives" story arcs. The collection also includes the Sandman Special, retelling the Greek myth of Orpheus, and a brief piece from a Vertigo promotional comic. Because Fables and Reflections partakes of so many elements, some believe it lacks the thematic or artistic consistency that is present even in the other short story collections. Perhaps in an effort to make these differences less apparent, DC has shuffled the issues in the volume instead of presenting them chronologically with "Distant Mirrors" at the front and "Convergence" at the back. Some readers may choose to read this volume cover-to-cover after "A Game of You", while others read individual stories in their place as originally published. Due to its nature as a collection of short stories, Fables & Reflections is probably the least essential volume of the series in terms of the surface plot of The Sandman (with the exception of "Orpheus"), but perhaps the most accessible as the reader can dip in and out without needing a thorough grounding in the characters and previous stories. That said, some of the stories in Fables and Reflections provide key subtext that is invaluable to the close reader attempting to understand Morpheus' motivations in the rest of the series. 181895 book 1993 The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections total:6249|5:114|4:53|3:13|2:0|1:0| 6249 27824 7478 97 3 3 false false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 21:30:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 21:34:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:55:57 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 00:56:55 -0800 2009 Fables and Reflections is another volume in the Sandman series that is a collection of short stories. Once again, Neil Gaiman displays his deft touch with some brilliant story-telling: Ramadan, Orpheus, and The Hunt are my favourites from this volume, although I do like most of the stories in this v...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 29 13:45:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 13:56:54 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 03:04:20 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 03:06:04 -0700 2009 From "Soft Places":
"Time at the edge of the dreaming is softer than elsewhere, and here in the soft places it loops and whorls on itself. In the soft places where the border between dreams and reality is eroded, or has...more...]]> 5 1 false true Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 16:00:48 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 18:17:09 -0700 2009
Orpheus's story was epically tragic, and I can't help but hope that he som...more...]]> 5 1 false true Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 14:14:27 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 02:52:29 -0700 2009
Lil Death and Lil Dream?

Cutest. effing. thing. ever.

I love how seemingly none of the people introduced in each volume are incidental. They keep popping back up in ways you wouldn't expect. I...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 17 18:38:31 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 18:43:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 20:48:12 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 11:10:36 -0700 2009 Fables and Reflections seems to serve as a catch-all for all the issues of The Sandman that didn't fit in any other volume. Yet unlike Dream Country (Vol. 3), the previous collection of stand-alones, these tales have a connecting thread: all are rooted in histo...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Apr 26 15:37:35 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 15:37:50 -0700 2008
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Fear Of Falling: A brief short about fear of failure

Three Septembers And A January: ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Aug 29 08:28:24 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 08:45:30 -0700 2007
Here's what i want to say, b...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 21:12:18 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 21:15:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 26 11:20:40 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 11:24:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 02 18:42:59 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 06:22:19 -0700 2009 Fables & Reflections is unique in the Sandman line in that it is a collection of stand-alone stories that serve as chapters, and it is the most beautiful and ambitious volume in the series so far. In roughly 250 pages, Neil Gaiman transports us to 19th Century San Francisco, to Ancient Greece, to th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 04 09:59:31 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 09:40:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 08:37:22 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 08:37:22 -0700 2009 I would give these five stars, but the art is t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 09:43:53 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 13:15:20 -0700 2008 Fables and Reflections is the second of the collections of stand alone stories. These stories are set throughout Morpheus’s history. Four of these stories deal with kings and rulers, while others deal with stories of the meetings of various characters: Marco Polo: werewolves: Cain, Abel and Eve ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 18:28:02 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 18:41:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=25106