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Black Gate Short Fiction Reviews

Black Gate Short Fiction Reviews

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Flesh eating mutants, golden apples, post-apocalyptic witches, and a crazy little thing called Love — just another day in the office for Black Gate reviewer David Soyka. This week he reviews notable offerings from Fantasy and Science Fiction and Interzone, issues featuring the work of authors such as Ted Chiang, John Lanagan, M. John Harrison, and Gwyneth Jones. Which one prompted David to exclaim, “Cormac McCarthy, eat your heart out!”? Click the link and find out.

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A Review of The Book of the Ler

A Review of The Book of the Ler

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Every once in awhile a long-forgotten genre classic is unearthed and reintroduced to a new generation of readers. Such is the case with M. A. Foster’s Ler trilogy of sci-fi books. But does the series’ classic status hold up after three decades of out-of-print neglect? Black Gate reviewer D. K. Latta explores all 928 pages of Foster’s mind-bending “genetic evolution and manipulation” to find out.

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Review of Imaro 2: The Quest For Cush

Review of Imaro 2: The Quest For Cush

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Imaro ranks among the all-time great fantasy heroes, a warrior stalking through a fantasticated, prehistoric Africa brimming with sword-and-sorcery pleasures. The character’s creator, Charles Saunders, is legendary in the field as the first black author to make a splash in the genre, ingeniously playing off of the work and headlong style of past masters like Robert E. Howard while creating a startling new fantasy world with all the quasi-historical verisimilitude of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. The result is sui generis, a brilliant evocation of S&S that hasn’t been seen before or since.

Black Gate regular Ryan Harvey takes a look at the new reprinting of the second Imaro book, The Quest For Cush, and tells us what has changed since it was first published back in 1984. It’s a series that no reader who claims to be a fantasy fan should miss.

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Black Gate Short Fiction Reviews

Black Gate Short Fiction Reviews

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Time and History are on the agenda in David Soyka’s latest fiction reviews for Black Gate readers.

In Paradox Magazine #10, Soyka tells how author C. Kevin Barrett succeeds where so many others fail in their depictions of alternate history, and delves into new tales from Sarah Monette and Danny Adams, among others.

Meanwhile, Interzone 210 offers compelling new fiction by Rachel Swirsky and Tim Akers. . . but is the magazine’s cover more misleading than matter-of-fact? Dive into David’s review and find out.

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A Review of The Spriggan Mirror

A Review of The Spriggan Mirror

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Lawrence Watt-Evans utilized the Internet in novel fashion to bring the latest entry in his Ethshar series to readers. Black Gate‘s Rich Horton tells you all about how he did it, what it may hint about the future of publishing, and whether the book itself lives up to the previous volumes in Watt-Evans’ fantasy saga.

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Black Gate Short Fiction Reviews

Black Gate Short Fiction Reviews

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From the venerable Sunday New York Times Magazine to small online bastions such as Clarkesworld and Strange Horizons, short fantasy and science fiction is still out there in the marketplace of ideas, thrilling readers around the world. Join Black Gate‘s David Soyka on a trip through all the latest gems in the field, including the latest from a Pulitzer Prize winner and several nominees for the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards.

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Black Gate Short Fiction Reviews

Black Gate Short Fiction Reviews

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It’s into the small press maelstrom once again with Black Gate‘s David Soyka, as he considers two new offerings from the world of short genre fiction.

This month we look at the debut of an ambitious new print magazine titled Greatest Uncommon Denominator, as well as the third issue of the online publication Darker Matter. Both are crammed with lots of intriguing stories by authors such as Jason Stoddard, Bruce Boston, and Charlie Anders, and David points you to the best of the bunch.

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Black Gate Fiction Reviews

Black Gate Fiction Reviews

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Two of the most exciting Sword-and-Sorcery volumes to be released in recent memory are on the agenda this week. Both feature the work of longstanding masters in the field, and both feature some material that has been published before. So what makes these new volumes different? Enter our review sanctum sanctorum with Ryan Harvey and Howard Andrew Jones to find out.

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