Fortunately, the Milk

　　牛奶沒了，這竟然跟父親的離奇綁架案有關？鬼才大師尼爾蓋曼X美漫插畫大師Skottie Young攜手合作，打造最荒誕奇幻的冒險小說！

　　家中牛奶沒了，盡責的父親決定外出買牛奶，但突然天空中出現飛碟，把父親綁架了？！在宇宙中相繼遇到外星人、海盜、大恐龍，父親該如何找到回家的路？父親手中緊握的牛奶，竟然是最大的關鍵...。

　　尼爾蓋曼曾說這本書是他寫過最怪奇荒誕的一本小說，透過插畫大師Skottie Young的妙筆，筆下的人物不但神采奕奕，而且表情生動，替這部小說注入無窮的活力，不論是大人或小孩，都可以透過簡動易懂的英文，進入這個由大師親手打造的探險世界！（文/博客來編譯）

　　You know what it's like when your mum goes away on a business trip and Dad's in charge. She leaves a really, really long list of what he's got to do. And the most important thing is DON'T FORGET TO GET THE MILK. Unfortunately, Dad forgets. So the next morning, before breakfast, he has to go to the corner shop, and this is the story of why it takes him a very, very long time to get back.

　　Featuring: Professor Steg (a time-travelling dinosaur), some green globby things, the Queen of the Pirates, the famed jewel that is the Eye of Splod, some wumpires, and a perfectly normal but very important carton of milk.

　　The award-laden, bestselling Neil Gaiman, author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Stardust, Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book and Coraline, brings his biggest ever publishing year to a spectacular conclusion with this gloriously entertaining novel about time-travel, dinosaurs, milk and dads.
 

作者簡介

尼爾．蓋曼（1960~）

　　當代奇幻大師，被譽為「美國之寶」，史蒂芬．金更封他為「故事寶窟」。

　　他有如「文壇的達文西」，從漫畫、散文、小說、電影劇本、歌詞創作、兒童故事，到奇幻、科幻、驚悚小說，均無一不精的鬼才作家。

　　27歲時，他便以漫畫「Sandman」系列崛起，著名的黑暗幽默在九○年代風靡了歐美大眾，更獲獎無數，成為歐美漫畫迷心目中的最愛與經典。小說創作也迭獲佳評：長篇小說《星塵》(Stardust)獲創神獎、中篇故事《第十四道門》(Coraline)獲星雲獎；《美國眾神》(American Gods)堪稱他的文壇代表作，不僅獲得多項大獎，也囊括紐約時報等各大暢銷榜；此外更有不少精彩短篇小說創作。蓋曼才華洋溢，創意驚人，擅長融會現代都市文明與古老奇幻傳說，交織人性的幽暗與瑰麗，想像力大膽豐富，筆觸簡練詼諧。2007年電影《貝武夫》劇作即出自他手。

　　尼爾．蓋曼專屬網站：www.neilgaiman.com

　　Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for both children and adults and is the first author to have won both the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work – The Graveyard Book. The L.A. Times has described his multi-million-selling graphic novel series Sandman as ‘the greatest epic in the history of comic books'. Many of his books, including Coraline and Stardust, have been made into films, Neverwhere has been adapted for tv and radio and American Gods is in development as a major HBO series. He has also written two amazing episodes of Doctor Who and appeared in The Simpsons as himself. In 2013 he published his first adult novel for seven years, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which received stellar reviews and was a bestseller around the world.