C.J. Cherryh's "Gate of Ivrel"
About this episode
The episode discusses C.J. Cherryh's 'Gate of Ivrel' and various thematic elements related to narrative style and game settings.
Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss C.J. Cherryh's "Gate of Ivrel", healing salves, claustrophobic third-person narratives, planetary-scale, parallels to Elric and Birthgrave, focusing on interiority over physical descriptions, precise and consistent language choices, endings that work, the Glorantha setting in Runequest, moving campaigns to different settings, hunger as a riveting threat, Night of the Leepus, and much more!
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