{"id":11522,"date":"2010-02-24T22:36:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T06:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:20:57","slug":"more-sneak-peeks-from-black-gate-including-john-c-hocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/more-sneak-peeks-from-black-gate-including-john-c-hocking\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sneak Peeks From Black Gate<\/em>, Including John C. Hocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As [redacted] reported earlier this month<\/a>, the release of Black Gate #14<\/em> is imminent. Whilst copies of the new\u00a0issue, like unto\u00a0blood-mad dogs\u00a0of war,\u00a0await release from the loving clutches of the printer, publisher John O’Neill has been providing previews of some of the stories.<\/p>\n

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Foremost among the contributors to BG#14 (in this blogger’s opinion) is John C. Hocking. Hocking exploded on the Sword-and-Sorcery scene back in the ’90s with the release of Conan and the Emerald Lotus<\/a><\/em>. In the opinion of myself and many\u00a0others (including Steve Tompkins<\/a>), Lotus<\/em> remains one of the best Conan pastiches ever written. Before JCH could get his second novel, Conan and the Living Plague<\/em>, published by Tor,\u00a0CPI pulled the Bokhauriot carpet from under him.<\/p>\n

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Undaunted, Hocking picked himself up, slapped some mud on his wounds and marched on. He went on to pen the online graphic novella, Catspaw <\/em>(illustrated by Storn Cook, who also limns Hocking’s latest tale), as well as appearing in Pitch-Black’s Lords of Swords<\/em> S&S collection<\/a>. Since then, Hocking has placed fiction in Black Gate<\/em> on more than one occasion. John O’Neill’s write-up on Hocking’s most recent tale of Brand the Viking can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A sneak peek of Matthew David Surridge’s “The Word of Azrael” can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An excerpt from\u00a0“The Mist Beyond the Circle” by Martin Owton can be found here<\/a>. This tale looks interesting.<\/p>\n

Due to the brevity of the excerpt given, it’s hard to make a call on “Freedling” from Mike Schultz. Still, it looks like it could be an enjoyable read. A sample can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, “The Renunciation of the Crimes of Gharad the Undying” by newcomer Alex Kreis is an amusing short work of fiction. Sort of like Prince John (or King Namedides)\u00a0writing a Magna Carta-style\u00a0document\u00a0for the People’s Republic of Angleterre. O’Neill has posted the entire piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Black Gate #14<\/em> looks to be the biggest chunk of Sword-and-Sorcery to hit the stands in periodical form for at least a decade. Get up in the fundament of your local retailer and demand they stock it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As [redacted] reported earlier this month, the release of Black Gate #14 is imminent. Whilst copies of the new\u00a0issue, like unto\u00a0blood-mad dogs\u00a0of war,\u00a0await release from the loving clutches of the printer, publisher John O’Neill has been providing previews of some of the stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[93,94,95],"class_list":["post-11522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-authors","tag-conan-and-the-emerald-lotus","tag-john-c-hocking","tag-sword-and-sorcery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16833,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions\/16833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}