Neil Gaiman remembers Smilin' Stan Lee fondly in Edmonton

“Fiction is the lie that tells the truth,” Neil Gaiman was saying to more than 1,500 captivated fans in Edmonton, also noting, “Books are the way that the dead communicate with us.”
It was a generous, captivating session of connection at Shaw Conference Centre Tuesday night. The 58-year-old English-American author was supposed to speak for an hour and a half; he gave us more than two.
Standing alone on stage in black, Gaiman read entire chapters of Norse Mythology; his sh