![]() The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine Do yourself a favor and check out one or two that sound interesting.ġ. If you’re like most readers, you’ll find more than a few you haven’t read. Not convinced? Have a look at the following list of 10 recent, and highly acclaimed, historical fantasy novels, written by a Who’s Who of emerging fantasy writers. Mary Robinette Kowal, Genevieve Valentine, Patty Templeton, Catherynne Valente, and many others have penned some really terrific historical fantasies recently… and more are arriving every week. Most recently, I’ve noticed that the emerging trend in fantasy - the one attracting the hottest writers in the field - seems to be historical fantasy. Superhero movies? They’re going to be popular. Social media? It’s starting to catch on - take our word for it. ![]() On laundry day, I still wear bell bottoms.īut there are some trends so obvious that even we notice. ![]() What can I tell you? We’re too busy reading to be hip. If there’s something we’re consistently good at here at Black Gate, it’s jumping on a trend late. ![]()
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Blood Splatters Quickly by Ed Wood6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As the world endured its final, agonising demise, the mortal races of the Old World fought to the very last against the encroaching darkness which sought to consume them all. The comet's coming signalled the coronation of the thirteenth and final Everchosen of Chaos Undivided: Archaon - called the "Three-Eyed King," the "Lord of the End Times," and the "Herald of the Apocalypse" - and his bid to bring destruction upon the Human realms of the Old World. It was heralded by the arrival of the Twin-Tailed Comet, both an omen of hope and one of destruction. ![]() Birth of the Mortal Realms The End Times (2519-2528 IC) was the great cataclysmic apocalypse that had been long predicted to bring about the end of the Known World. ![]() Régimódi történet by Magda Szabó6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() On the hundredth anniversary of the Kossuth prize winning writer’s birth, the memorial house named after her was opened in the writer’s former school. In the case of the writer, not only the roots go back to Debrecen but the material of her life and work is interwoven by places, events and characters typically related to the city. Several Hungarian cities, regions can be connected to famous literary characters, artists, numerous regions bear the marks of their famous offspring, just as Debrecen has “raised” some honorary citizens. ![]() Just like the embossing stamp of a notary, which merges into the background colour, but leaves a permanent mark perforating the structure of the paper: that’s the way Debrecen and being from Debrecen appears on the pages of Magda Szabó’s work. ![]() A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni6/30/2023 ![]() “So I wrote a poem about Big Maybelle, the blues singer. Nikki Giovanni is the award-winning poet of numerous books including A Good Cry, Bicycles, Chasing Utopia, and Love Poems. “I also wrote about things that made me happy and things that made me laugh,” Giovanni said, giggling like a teenager. Shes been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a. She writes passionately about her family, education, space travel, the Black Lives Matter movement, Fisk University, Civil Rights demonstrations, and people who have impacted her life, including actress Ruby Dee and poet Maya Angelou. The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. “A Good Cry," published by William Morrow, is a thoughtful and illuminating compilation of Giovanni’s new works. The 74-year-old poet has a new collection entitled, "A Good Cry." Jacquelyn Martin / AP file “So I told my doctor he needs to invent a symptom called ‘The Nikki’ – so when patients come to him with high blood pressure he can tell them ‘You have the Nikki!’ ” Nikki Giovanni appears at the unveiling of the Maya Angelou Forever Stamp in Washington on April 7, 2015. I told my doctor my problem isn’t salt, it’s that I never learned to cry – and to let it out.” ![]() ![]() “He said I have high blood pressure, he told me I eat too much salt. ![]() “I realized that after I had a seizure, my doctor and I have been arguing ever since,” Giovanni said. In A Good Cry, Nikki Giovanni takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents. ![]() |