Author Event: Appendix N: Weird Tales From the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons with Peter Bebergal and Ethan Gilsdorf
Join Peter Bebergal for a discussion of his new book Appendix N: Weird Tales From the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons in a revised and expanded
edition. He will be joined in conversation by writer and teacher Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. They will discuss the changes in fantasy fiction and D&D over the years, and how each informed the other. Q&A and signing will follow.
This new edition, published on the occasion of D&D’s 50th anniversary, includes fascinating new stories, a comprehensive introduction, and a new foreword.by Arthur C. Clarke award-winning novelist Adrian Tchaikovsky, tales by A.
Drawing upon the original list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master's Guide, published in 1979, as well as hobbyist magazines and related periodicals that helped to define the modern role-playing game, Appendix N offers a collection of short fiction and resonant fragments that reveal the literary influences that shaped Dungeons & Dragons, the world's most popular RPG. The stories in Appendix N contextualize the ambitious lyrical excursions that helped set the adventurous tone and dank, dungeon-crawling atmospheres of fantasy roleplay as we know it today.
Includes work by Poul Anderson, Frank Brunner, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, Lord Dunsany, Gardner Fox & John Giunta, Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, David Madison, A. Merritt, Michael Moorcock, C. L. Moore, Andre Norton, Fred Saberhagen, Clark Ashton Smith, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman.
Author info:
Peter Bebergal writes widely on the speculative and slightly fringe. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, Boing Boing, The Believer, and The Quietus. He is the author of Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural and Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, among others. Bebergal studied religion and culture at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ethan Gilsdorf is a writer, teacher, performer, and the author of the Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Esquire, Wired, Salon, O the Oprah Magazine, Brevity, Electric Literature, Poetry, The Southern Review, among other publications, and named "Notable" by The Best American Essays. He teaches writing at GrubStreet and LitArts RI, and is on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University. More info: ethangilsdorf.com.
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