 To promote the fact that Black Gate is now available as a pdf file, in addition to the usual print edition, issue #12 (Summer 2008) is being offered as a free download "for a limited time." To access the free magazine, subtitled "Adventures in Fantasy Literature," see blackgate.com, where you can download the magazine as one complete, 18.9 Mb file, or as two smaller pieces (10.8 and 8.2 Mb).
The contents of this issue include:
Fiction:
"Oblivion is the Sweetest Wine" by John R. Fultz
"Payment in Full" by James Enge
"Houses of the Dead" by Martha Wells
"The Wily Thing" by Constance Cooper
"The Soldiers of Serenity" by Todd McAulty
"Knives Under the Spring Moon" by Ed Carmien
"Whispers from the Stone" by Howard Andrew Jones
"Tumithak and the Ancient Word" by Charles R. Tanner (classic reprint)
Feature:
"Legends of the Ancient World: Orcs of the High Mountains" by Jerry Meyer, Jr. (a solo adventure game story)
Columns:
Gaming: Fantasy Game Reviews by Howard Andrew Jones
Book Reviews
Departments:
Editorial: "Solitaire Fantasy Gaming" by John O'Neill
Letters
Knights of the Dinner Table: "The Java Joint" by Jolly Blackburn, Steve Johansson, and John O'Neill (comic strip)
Cover art is by Bruce Pennington; interior art by Storn Cook, Mark Evans, John Kaufmann, Chuck Lukacs, Michael Vilardi, and John Woolley.
Black Gate is published quarterly by New Epoch Press; published and edited by John O'Neill; Howard Andrew Jones is the managing editor, and Rich Horton and Todd McAulty are the contributing editors.
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