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Adventures in Fantasy Literature
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What I’ve Been Reading: April 2025
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/04/28/what-ive-been-reading-april-2025/
Published: April 28, 2025 10:00
I continue to listen to audiobooks daily. They fit my lifestyle and let me get to a lot more stuff than I would if I just read. I mean, driving with a paperback in hand is quite the challenge! I just re-listened to the entire SPQR mystery series by John…
Shai Dorsai: Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/04/27/shai-dorsai-dorsai-by-gordon-r-dickson/
Published: April 27, 2025 21:43
Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson (Ace Books, February 1980). Cover by Jordi Penalva In 1959, Robert A. Heinlein published Starship Troopers, one of the founding works of military science fiction as a genre. But that same year saw the serialization of Gordon R.…
Tubi Dive, Part III
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/04/26/tubi-dive-part-iii/
Published: April 26, 2025 18:21
50 films that I dug up on Tubi. Enjoy! Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) Ah, the 70s. My formative years. Angry nature films were rampant around this time (much to my delight), and now it’s time for tarantulas to be miffed at our overuse of pesticides. William…
Tor Doubles: #3 Brian W. Aldiss’s The Saliva Tree and Robert Silverberg’s Born with the Dead
Published: April 25, 2025 11:00
Tor Double #3 was originally published in December 1988. The two stories included are Brian W. Aldiss’s The Saliva Tree and Robert Silverberg’s Born with the Dead. The volume was published as a tête-bêche, with Les Edwards providing the cover art for The…
Goth Chick News: The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo Breaks Records for Nerdy Goodness
Published: April 25, 2025 00:15
Though Black Gate photog Chris Z and I have affectionately referred to ourselves as “horror nerds” almost from the beginning of working together, I was never quite sure if the term “nerd” was offensive to others. Therefore, in making a small nod to Big…
The Eccentric’s Bookshelf: Michael Weldon’s Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film
Published: April 23, 2025 13:00
1983? Let me tell you how it was. In a World Without the Internet, before Youtube, before Netflix, before Prime, before 4K UHD smart TVs, before social media or Substack or niche newsletters, before IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, before DVDs and Blu-rays, even…
A Boy and His Dog: How Archaeology is My Biggest Inspiration
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/04/22/a-boy-and-his-dog-how-archaeology-is-my-biggest-inspiration/
Published: April 22, 2025 16:39
Good afterevenmorn, Readers! Once upon a time, a much younger me fell into an obsession… Well, several related obsessions, if I’m being honest. Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology dug its claws into my brain and would not let go. In what might have…
A (Black) Gat in the Hand: William Patrick Murray – Who was N.V. Romero?
Published: April 21, 2025 10:00
“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 gun. Shortened version of Gatling Gun) Will Murray has…
Damien Broderick, April 22, 1944 – April 19, 2025
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/04/20/damien-broderick-april-22-1944-april-19-2025/
Published: April 20, 2025 19:14
Australian writer, editor, and critic Damien Broderick has died, April 19, 2025, just a few days short of his 81st birthday. He died peacefully in his sleep after a long illness. He is survived by his wife and occasional collaborator Barbara Lamar. I had…
Tubi Dive, Part II
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/04/19/tubi-dive-part-ii/
Published: April 19, 2025 19:50
50 films that I dug up on Tubi. Enjoy! The Beast Within (1982) This crusty classic from the early 80s exemplifies the beautiful state of the horror genre at that time. This is one of the first writing credits for Tom (Fright Night, Chucky) Holland, and he…