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Scott H. Andrews
07-30-2008, 01:32 PM
Black Gate (http://www.blackgate.com/) magazine, for years the only dedicated market for adventure and pulp-style fantasy, is making the full contents of their newest issue, Issue 12, available for free as a PDF download. You can download the complete version (19 MB) (http://www.blackgate.com/downloads/black_gate_12.pdf) or visit their site for two smaller files of this issue split in half. Thanks, Black Gate!
Merc
08-01-2008, 09:03 AM
How cool! Thanks for the link to this, Scott! (And thanks to Black Gate for offering it.) *goes to download*
Sarah Avery
08-04-2008, 10:37 PM
You're a Black Gate reader? Okay, now I know which story to submit for BCS.
Scott H. Andrews
08-05-2008, 08:40 AM
You're a Black Gate reader? Okay, now I know which story to submit for BCS.
I do read Black Gate, but I only like about half the stuff they publish. :)

I do think there's some overlap between their stuff and what I'm interested in for Beneath Ceaseless Skies, but I'm on the more literary side of that overlap and I think they are more raw swords & sorcery or retro-pulp.
Matthew Wuertz
08-29-2008, 02:56 PM
What were some of your favorite stories in Black Gate? I'm also a subscriber to that magazine, so I'm curious how much we overlap in tastes.

-Matt
Scott H. Andrews
08-31-2008, 09:14 AM
What were some of your favorite stories in Black Gate? I'm also a subscriber to that magazine, so I'm curious how much we overlap in tastes.
I'll have to dig through my back issues and check, but off the top of my head, the Charles Coleman Finlay piece several years ago and the Judith Berman pieces were my all-time favorites in Black Gate. I also absolutely loved a humor piece that they bought a few years ago by a guy named Geoff Cohen--he wrote it at a workshop I was at--but they haven't yet published it.

Their current crop of serial pieces don't really do much for me. A lot of the prose in them feels ragged to me, and in one I remember finding three typos on the same page. Maybe I'm too meticulous a reader, but that always distracts me.

They do have a Chris Willrich piece supposed to come out in an upcoming issue--that will probably end up being my all-time favorite. :)