Some of my most ambitious pieces are for Black Gate, John O'Neill's excellent online fanzine. I like to keep people aware of them, so here's a summary of some of the best from the past couple or three years.
A particular focus recently has been a series of close readings of short fiction. This began with a look at Samuel R. Delany's "The Star Pit", and most recently I wrote about Cordwainer Smith's "Scanners Live in Vain". Here's all seven of these posts to date, in reverse order of publication.
"Scanners Live in Vain", by Cordwainer Smith;
"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain", by James Tiptree, Jr.;
"Winter's King", by Ursula K. Le Guin;
"It Opens the Sky", by Theodore Sturgeon;
"Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", by John M. Ford;
Three Stories by Idris Seabright;
"The Star Pit", by Samuel R. Delany;
Other Black Gate posts (some reviews, a look at an old F&SF, and something slightly different):
Review of Aspects, by John M. Ford;
Review of Saint Death's Daughter, by C. S. E. Cooney;
Review of The Gentleman, by Forrest Leo;
Review of Underneath the Oversea, by Marc Laidlaw;
Snippet about finding a signed copy of the Twayne Triplet Witches Three;
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