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Git Gud, Scrub
Image by Van3ssa Desiré Dazzy from Pixabay Good afterevenmorn! This post is for the baby writers out there, those of you who have finished your first book, or will be finishing soon and are deciding...
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A to Z Reviews: “Captain Starlight and the Flying Saucer,” by S. Ivan Jurisevic
An interesting coincidence occurred when I hit the Js. The first author in my collection was Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, whose story “The Haunted House on Rocketworks Street” appeared in an anthology...
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Andre Norton: Gateway to Magic, Part III
The first two installments in this series are here: Andre Norton: Gateway to Magic, Part I Andre Norton: Gateway to Magic, Part II As I mentioned in the first two articles in this series, I’ve read a...
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Git Gud, Scrub
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A to Z Reviews: Sync, by K.P. Kyle
K.P. Kyle’s debut novel Sync is the first of three novel-length works that I’ll be looking at in this series. Published by Allium Press, in 2019, Kyle offers the story of Brigid, who picks up a...
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A (Black) Gat in the Hand: Ya Gotta Ask – Reprise
“You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.” – Phillip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (Gat — Prohibition Era term for a...
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Vintage Treasures: Cave of Stars by George Zebrowski
Cave of Stars (Eos/HarperCollins, December 2000). Cover art by Bob Eggleton I don’t know much about George Zebrowski. I probably should. According to ISFDB he’s written more than a dozen science...
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Future Treasures: Vinyl Wonderland by Mark Rigney
Vinyl Wonderland (Castle Bridge Media, June 25, 2024). Cover artist unknown Mark Rigney will be familiar to most long-time readers at Black Gate. He wrote his first blog post for us (Portals: A Writer...
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Git Gud, Scrub
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Ellsworth’s Cinema of Swords: Wolves and Scorpions
Brotherhood of the Wolf (France, 2001) The boom in heroic fantasy novels in the wake of the success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Conan revival means there is plenty of imaginative literary...
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Disembodied Heads, War Robots, and Crime Hives: May-June 2024 Print SF Magazines
May-June 2024 issues of Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction. Covers by Kurt Huggins (for “Uncle Roy’s Computer Repairs and Used Robot Parts”) and Shutterstock. There’s no...
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Vintage Treasures: Tangled Webs by Steve Mudd
Tangled Webs (Questar/Popular Library, August 1989). Cover by Blas Gallego There was a time, not so many years ago, when my reading was spontaneous. My wife would mention an intriguing mystery she’d...
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A (Black) Gat in the Hand: Ya Gotta Ask – Reprise
“You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.” – Phillip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (Gat — Prohibition Era term for a...
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A Weird & Wonderful Treasure Trove: New Gaming Releases
Legacy of the Green Flame (Pacesetter Games) Fellow RPG enthusiasts, if I may, I would like to direct your attention to a few fine new projects that recently funded on Kickstarter. Legacy of the Green...
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New Treasures: Ragged Maps by Ian R. MacLeod
Ragged Maps (Subterranean Press, September 15, 2023). Cover by Dominic Harman Ian R. MacLeod’s novels include The Light Ages (2003) and sequel The House of Storms (2005), but his greatest acclaim has...
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Unabashed Pulp: Dire Planet by Joel Jenkins
The first three novels in the Dire Planet series (Pulp Work Press, 2009). Covers by Mats Minnhagen, Noel Tuazon, and Michael Dean Jackson Joel Jenkins has written 9 books in his Dire Planet series,...
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Lord of a Shattered Land and The Doom of Odin: Howard Andrew Jones and Scott...
I just finished two Euro-Mediterranean-inspired fantasy novels, and, by chance, both feature dragons on their beautiful covers. This post showcases both. Scott Oden’s The Doom of Oden wraps up a...
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A to Z Reviews: “The Adventure of You,” by Paul La Farge
Paul LaFarge wrote five novels before his death in January 2023 from cancer. His essays and fiction appeared in a variety of magazines. Only a small portion of his work was within the genre, but the...
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The Wit and Wisdom of Connie Willis
Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2011, containing “All About Emily,” and the Subterranean Press hardcover edition (January 31, 2012). Covers by Duncan Long and J.K. Potter Far too often, the best...
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Goth Chick News – It’s Never Too Early to Talk About Halloween
Let me start by saying yes, I know it’s only June, aka ‘summer’… But here in the subterranean office of Goth Chick News we literally only hit pause on Halloween for the last two weeks of December, and...
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