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Sometimes It’s Exhausting Being a Gamer
Good Afterevenmorn! I know that greeting is nonsensical, but I do love it, so it’s staying. it’s a whimsical kind of thing… and I need that whimsy right about now. You see, I’m exhausted. It’s not...
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Besties: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by R.F. Kuang
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 (Mariner Books, October 17, 2023) Perhaps the most overused title for short story anthologies beings with “Best of.” In genre fiction, the...
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H. Bruce Franklin, February 28, 1934 — May 19, 2024
H. Bruce Franklin I was sad to learn that H(oward) Bruce Franklin, emeritus John Cotton Dana endowed Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark and author of numerous books,...
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Goth Chick News: Now It’s The Fly’s Turn to Crawl Out of the Vault
The Tingler (Columbia Pictures, July 1959), and The Fly (20th Century Fox, July 1958) Though I have previously described how my Dad first introduced me to classic horror, Mom would likely be mortified...
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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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Horror and Beauty in Edgar Rice Burrough’s Work: An Interview with Robert...
We have an ongoing series at Black Gate on “Beauty in Weird Fiction,” where we corner an author and query them about their muses and methods to make ‘repulsive things’ become ‘attractive to readers.’...
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Nero Wolfe’s Brownstone: Welcome to Kanawha Spa – The Wolfe Pack 2024...
So, last month, I joined fellow Wolfe Pack members for a long weekend at The Greenbrier Resort, in West Virginia. It was the fifth trip there for the group, though my first. It’s only a four hour-plus...
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New Treasures: Gogmagog and Ludluda by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard
Gogmagog and Ludluda (Angry Robot, February 13, 2024 and December 3, 2024). Cover art by Ian McQue I had a fruitful trip to the local Barnes & Noble last week. I brought home the latest issues of...
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A 1970s Future: The Man Responsible by Stephen Robinett
The Man Responsible (Ace Books, April 1978). Cover art by Vincent DiFate This latest in my loose series of essays about fairly obscure 1970s/1980s SF books is about a writer who looked to be...
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Goth Chick News: Saving One of the Best Vault Treasures for Last
An American Werewolf in London (Universal Pictures, August 21, 1981) I am relieved to report that this is my final week of traveling which has been utterly unassociated with any fun save for my horror...
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A to Z Reviews: “Tag,” by David Kablack
David Kablack’s “Tag” appeared in the 18th issue of the magazine Pirate Writings, which would change its name to Fantastic Stories of the Imagination with the next issue. One of the features of Pirate...
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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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Nero Wolfe’s Brownstone: ‘A Toast to Nero Wolfe, &‘A Stay at Home Intro’
Last week I gave a big recap of April’s Wolfe Pack gathering at the Greenbrier Resort, in West Virginia. Too Many Cooks, the fifth Wolfe novel, takes place at Kanawha Spa. Kanawha is essentially the...
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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
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: 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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