Editing American Gods (section)

== Reception ==

The book won the 2002 [[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Hugo]], [[Nebula Award for Best Novel|Nebula]], [[Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel|Locus]],<ref name="WWE-2002"/> [[SFX (magazine)|''SFX'']] and [[Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel|Bram Stoker]] Awards, all for Best Novel, and likewise received nominations for the 2001 [[BSFA Award]],<ref name="WWE-2001">{{cite web
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}}</ref> as well as the 2002 [[World Fantasy Award—Novel|World Fantasy]],<ref name="WWE-2002"/> [[International Horror Guild Award|International Horror Guild]] and [[Mythopoeic Awards|Mythopoeic]], and [[British Fantasy Award|British Fantasy]]<ref name="WWE-2002"/> awards. It won the 2003 [[Geffen Award]]. According to ''[[Literary Hub|Book Marks]]'', based on American publications, the book received "positive" reviews based on nine critic reviews, with two being "rave" and four being "positive" and two being "mixed" and one being "pan".<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Gods |url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/american-gods/|access-date=16 January 2024 |website=[[Literary Hub|Book Marks]]}}</ref> 

In May 2010, ''American Gods'' was selected in an online poll to be the first "One Book One Twitter" book.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/04/one-book-one-twitter-book-club |title='One Book, One Twitter' launches worldwide book club with Neil Gaiman |date=4 May 2010 |first=Alison |last=Flood |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=18 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602085200/http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/04/one-book-one-twitter-book-club |archive-date=2 June 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, when the television show adaptation was announced, author Abraham Riesman criticized the move as being a "bad idea", highlighting the aspects of the book that did not age well or were offensive to some cultures.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Riesman |first1=Abraham |title=Why Adapting Neil Gaiman's American Gods for TV Is a Bad Idea |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/07/neil-gaiman-american-gods-adaptation-starz-bad-idea.html |access-date=24 March 2021 |publisher=Vulture}}</ref> Beyond this, academics have claimed the work has ontological and epistemic implications,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blomqvist |first1=Rut |title='The Road of Our Senses: Search for Personal Meaning and the Limitations of Myth in Neil Gaiman's American Gods' |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26815498 |journal=Mythlore |year=2012 |volume=30 |issue=3/4 (117/118) |pages=5–26 |jstor=26815498 |access-date=20 May 2024}}</ref> and, as part of the body of Gaiman's work, explored the appropriative style.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Clay |title=Get Gaiman?: PolyMorpheus Perversity in Works by and about Neil Gaiman |url=https://imagetextjournal.com/get-gaiman-polymorpheus-perversity-in-works-by-and-about-neil-gaiman/ |website=ImageTxt: interdisciplinary Comics Studies}}</ref>