david gemmell

[NOTE: This interview is attributed to Amazon, but I’ve found it impossible to locate the original – Amazon may have removed it from their website] Return of the Waylander David Gemmell is one of the most popular writers of sword-and-sorcery fiction; his Legend and Waylander books are classics...

Stan Nicholls looks at David Gemmell’s motivations during writing his first eight books. If science fiction can be characterised as the literature of ideas – a genre essentially cerebral in nature – then fantasy (and to some extent horror) can be characterised as literature concerned with...

This interview was included in marketing material provided by publisher Orbit in 1998: David Gemmell’s classic Drenai series, which began with his first novel, LEGEND, was reissued in September with new covers. We took the opportunity to have a close encounter with Britain’s king of heroic...

David Gemmell Interview from Fear Magazine, Nov/Dec 1988 Nobody Gets Out of this Life Alive Fantasy writer David Gemmell tells Stan Nicholls of the life-and-death circumstances of his writing, a terrifying crisis which set him on the path from LEGEND to GHOST KING and beyond, to his latest...

PASSION AND HEART David Gemmell,Britain’s leading author of heroic fantasy, talks to Anne Gay ‘Sword in the Storm is a special book for me,’ says David Gemmell at the end of his most successful tour ever. ‘There are themes within it that I’ve wanted to explore more fully for a long time. It...

DRIN = Del Rey internet newsletter Jon Shannow, the dark protagonist from WOLF IN SHADOW, is one of those intensely compelling characters who, from the moment you meet him, lives and breathes. And as his raconteur, David Gemmell, once discovered, Shannow is a character who refuses to stop...

Stan Nicholls Interviews David Gemmell. First published in SFX Magazine in 1996. In SFX it was titled “Hack (and Slash) Author”. This title was disliked by both Stan Nicholls and David Gemmell. The Clute/Nicholls Encylopedia of Science Fiction calls David Gemmell – Britain’s current leading...

An interview with IN THE REALM OF THE WOLF author David A. Gemmell, conducted by author Paul Witcover: David Gemmell was born in London, England, in the summer of 1948. Expelled from school at sixteen for organizing a gambling syndicate, he became a laborer by day, and at night his...

DRIN = Del Rey internet newsletter Reprinted with permission from DRIN Number 29 (June 1995) Del Rey editor Steve W. Saffel interviews Gemmell for the DRIN: David A. Gemmell was born in London, England, in the summer of 1948. Expelled from school at sixteen for organizing a gambling...

GM or Games Master magazine was a short-lived (aren’t they all) roleplaying magazine. Not the computer gaming magazine that is currently available in the UK. David Gemmell’s five best selling fantasy novels have never been out of print. They have been translated into 12 different languages and...

If David Gemmell hadn't passed on so prematurely, how do we think his work would have evolved over the last 13 years? Personally I think, in his later work he started to lean towards a more pacifistic ideology. I think it's clear he still admired acts of great valour, but his later books seem...

Hi! I am a hobbyist-genealogist who had this idea in mind that there should be an entry for David Gemmell on the "World Family Tree" Geni. I already noticed a lot of Gemmell's are entered on Geni, even some David Gemmell, but sadly not "Our" David Gemmell. I know of course birth and death date...

What makes a story a story? Is it having a beginning, a middle and an end? Is it about a person changing? A struggle? I ask because in many ways, you could describe Sword in the Storm as a fictional biography. Its clearly not but there's something about the grand arc and lack of clear...

Echoes of the Great Song has always been one of my favourite Gemmells - possibly because of how different it is to the others - but I’d forgotten until my most recent read just how dark it was. In the first few pages we’re introduced to some of the members of the Avatars, a race who founded a...

It is right and proper that we recognise mastery of a craft in someone, but sometimes it can lead to overlooking the person's other skills. Take David Gemmell. Everyone knows about his ability to write action scenes, to convey the psychology of violence and depict the tough yet principled...

Just started this. Hoping for good things.

The King Beyond the Gate by David Gemmell It's hard to go wrong with Gemmell - his books make for smooth and easy reading. There are grim heroes with a hard - but reasonable - outlook on life, who despite their sometimes amoral arguments, usually find themselves fighting against a clear evil...

Lets have some Gemmell trivia. This can cover any of his SFF works including the complete Troy series. I'll start with a nice easy one. Who plucks an arrow out of the air to save the Iron Code follower?

It's not a fantasy novel, but still. And they're going to re-issue White Knight, Black Swan. Gollancz acquire a brand new, never before seen, novel from the late great David Gemmell

We passed the tenth anniversary of David Gemmell's death. I was in a curry house with my parents and my brother, Mum just said "Oh did you hear, that writer you like died..." I was stunned, hit for six, I actually felt dizzy! It makes me wonder what sort of direction his work would have taken...