Showing posts with label Black Gate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Gate. Show all posts
Monday, March 16, 2020

This, and that, and Black Gate

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I haven't felt much like posting or writing these days. Coronavirus/COVID-19 has got me down, to the point where I'm expecting the a...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Plethora of Howard Days Panels on Youtube

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If you didn’t make it out to Cross Plains Texas for Robert E. Howard Days this past June (I didn’t, and have not yet made the trip, though ...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

A Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore Score

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Brick and mortar bookstores are as rare as hen’s teeth these days, it seems, and that’s a shame. I enjoy the instantaneous convenience an...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Three Hobbit Films for the LOTR Fans = Trouble

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Fans of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings should be thrilled that The Hobbit , originally planned as two feature films, is now slated...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Six Sought Adventure: A Half-Dozen Swords And Sorcery Short Stories Worth Your Summer Reading Time

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I’ve always enjoyed fantasy fiction in the short form. In an age when a typical series stretches seven-plus doorstopper sized volumes with...
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Friday, July 6, 2012

Back from vacation with a Black Gate post on WWZ

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Well, I'm back from our annual family vacation in New Hampshire, a small slice of fun and relaxation that is almost entirely internet fr...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Q&A With Tolkien and the Great War Author John Garth on Michael Martinez’ Middle-earth website

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As a subscriber to the Mythsoc listserv I was very grateful to find a link from Michael Martinez—proprietor of the fine Middle-earth.xen...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

A brief tribute to the stories of Ray Bradbury

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I came to Ray Bradbury at what is likely a later age than most. I never had to read Fahrenheit 451 in school; if I read one of his shor...
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Of Red Moon and Black Mountain and the anxiety of Tolkien’s influence

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The shadow of The Lord of the Rings is long, indeed. In the 1960s Frodo lived and the reading public was hungry for more, and derivativ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

33 years to immortality. Maybe.

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In 2045 we will reach Event Horizon, aka the Singularity. In that year we will transcend biology and our bodies will meld with machines. ...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

An Ode to the Berkley Medallion Conans

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...in all their tattered glory Karl Edward Wagner was and remains the most qualified individual to weigh in on the issue of Conan stor...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Seven Princes by John R. Fultz, a Review

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What do you want out of your fantasy? Mythmaking in the mold of JRR Tolkien’s The Silmarillion ? Freebooting adventure, decaying civiliz...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, a review

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“Who cares who’s buried where?” muttered Craw, thinking about all the men he’d seen buried. “Once a man’s in the ground he’s just mud. M...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

My Black Gate post this week...

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... is more about Iron Maiden, mostly just an expansion of what I wrote below, with a few more anecdotes and some recycled material thrown i...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Styrbiorn the Strong, a review

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“There is but one way for a man, and that is to remember that none may avoid his fate. This is to a man as the due ballast to the ship, whic...
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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Transcendent fantasy, or politics as usual?

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My Black Gate post this week is not a review, nor an essay proper, but a question: Is it possible for fantasy to move beyond the political? ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Real vs. the Unreal, Worlds Other Than Our Own, and the Starting Line of Fantasy

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Whenever discussions of fantasy fiction arise, the question of “which came first?” inevitably follows. Newbies mistakenly think that J.R.R. ...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Tolkien’s Nobel Snub

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The 1961 nominations for the Nobel prize in literature apparently included The Lord of the Rings , and it seems Tolkien was dismissed rather...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Updated Blood and Thunder Portends Good Start to 2012 for Robert E. Howard Fans

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2011 hasn’t been the kindest year for fans of Robert E. Howard. January saw the end of the fine Del Rey series of Howard originals with the ...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Enjoying the Unique Character of Karl Edward Wagner’s Dark Crusade

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Why has swords and sorcery languished while epic fantasy enjoys a wide readership? In an age of diminished attention spans and the prolife...
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