Episode

C.J. Cherryh's "Gate of Ivrel"

Podcast: Appendix N Book Club
Published: Sep 22, 2025
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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!