Black Gate – Adventures in Fantasy Literature
I feel like Howard’s trilogy is epic sword and sorcery – a hybrid of the two which would also include Glen Cook’s The Black Company. It contains the individual adventuring aspect of sword and sorcery (stakes are more focused on the hero, not nations or empires), with the epic story scope of high fantasy.
Hal Clement Helped Launch My Writing Career – Black Gate
2025年1月8日 · Jeffrey P. Talanian’s last article for Black Gate was From Al-Qadim to The East Mark Gazetteer. He is the creator and publisher of the Hyperborea sword-and-sorcery and weird science-fantasy RPG from North Wind Adventures.
The Masters of Narrative Drive – Black Gate
2025年1月16日 · Charles Gramlich administers The Swords & Planet League group on Facebook, where this post first appeared. His last article for Black Gate was a look at William R. Forstchen’s The Lost Regiment.
Gary Gygax’ 17 Steps to Role-Playing Mastery (Steps 11 to 17) – …
2024年12月9日 · His ‘The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes’ column ran every Monday morning at Black Gate from March, 2014 through March, 2017. And he irregularly posts on Rex Stout’s gargantuan detective in ‘Nero Wolfe’s Brownstone.’
Alien Overlords, Part I – Black Gate
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Robert Adams was a Master of Narrative Drive – Black Gate
2024年11月26日 · […] (Black Gate): Franklin Robert Adams (1933 – 1990) only used his middle and last name on his books. He wrote […]
Barry N. Malzberg, July 24, 1939 – December 19, 2024 – Black Gate
2024年12月22日 · The End of Summer, edited by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini (Ace Books, June 1979), Neglected Visions, edited by Malzberg with Joseph D. Olander and Martin H. Greenberg ((Doubleday, October 1979), and Uncollected Stars, edited by Piers Anthony, Martin H. Greenberg, Barry N. Malzberg, and Charles G. Waugh (Avon, February 1986). Cover art: …
Say It Ain’t So – Black Gate
2025年1月29日 · This sort of thing has gotten discussed in the Black Gate comments sections going back a long way. We have debated whether we should or should not judge an author’s entire canon by one or another work, by one or another of an author’s actions.
2025 – Page 4 – Black Gate
Ted Lasso (Warner Bros. Television/Apple TV+, 2020-2023). I recently re-watched Ted Lasso, and as I took in the final episode, I was reminded quite forcibly of The Queen’s Gambit.The question was, why? I quickly cued up The Queen’s Gambit, and sure enough, my memory held true: both shows employ what I like to call — what I am going to call, starting here, with this …
G.W. Thomas on Fred Saberhagen’s Berserkers – Black Gate
2024年11月27日 · No disrespect to the other excellent Black Gate writers, but I have missed my regular “Vintage Treasures” fix. Although this post is not explicitly labeled as such, I’ll submit that it falls squarely in the same territory.