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Gollancz Announces that all 2014 debuts will debut as £1.99 eBooks
We’ve got some pretty exciting news for anyone who likes to stand at the forefront of the genre, reading the latest releases and discovering the newest talented authors: Gollancz are to release every single one of their 2014 debuts at the special price of £1.99. You’ll have to be quick and paying attention though, because […]
Toastmaster for Nebula Awards Named…
Whilst we wait to see who replaces Jonathon Ross as the host of the Hugo awards, the SFWA – who have also struggled with their own bout of controversy lately – have announced theirs. Not wanting to keep you in suspense, we’re pleased to pass on the news that the Toastmaster for the 49th Annual […]
A Monster Calls Movie: 2016 Release.
A few years ago I reviewed and raved about a remarkable book, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Well, having been ‘optioned’ by Hollywood quite some time ago, it seems that the film is pretty close to actually being made. It was announced earlier today that the award-winning director of The Orphanage and The Impossible, […]
Fantasy-Faction & Gollancz team up to bring you Chapters 1-7 of Words of Radiance
With just one more sleep until the publication of Words of Radiance, Fantasy-Faction have teamed up with Gollancz Books to bring you a special treat to celebrate this week’s edition of our weekly Way of Kings read along! Together, we’re sharing an audio extract and the first seven chapters of Words of Radiance. Not bad, aye? If you CLICK […]
Game of Thrones deaths recreated as 8-bit GIFs
An absolutely incredible pixel artist, Antonia Heslop, has recreated the top 14 most brutal deaths of The Game of Thrones series as 8-Bit GIFs. The author has put them in order of what they consider the most brutal, but here are our two favourites by way of the ‘pixelated-awesomeness’ scale: The moment we realise no […]
Words of Radiance, Stormlight Archive 2: Just £6.99
Hey guys, If you act quickly, you can order Brandon Sanderson’s Word’s of Radiance, Book 2 in The Stormlight Archive Series and Fantasy-Faction’s Most Anticipated Novel of 2014, for just £6.99 if you’re in the UK! Here’s the Blurb: From the bestselling author who completed Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series comes a new, […]
Elspeth Cooper adds her thoughts on Industry’s Sexism Problem
Fantasy-Faction is lucky enough to have a good number of talented published authors – especially female authors – posting in our forums. Perhaps I am being presumptuous, but I’d like to think that each of these wonderful ladies are friends of mine and so am very interested in their opinions and experiences revolving around the […]
Jonathan Ross Withdraws from Hugos
Twitter has been alight with the news that one of the UK’s biggest and best known talk show hosts, Jonathan Ross, has withdrawn from his role as Master of Ceremonies at this year’s Hugo Awards. For those who don’t have a clue who he is, he isn’t too far from the mould of Jay Leno […]
Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Assassin Cover revealed!
Well, earlier this week we revealed the cover redesigns of Robin Hobb’s original Farseer series. If that wasn’t enough excitement for one week, her American Publishers (Del Ray books) have just released the cover for Fool’s Assassin! Pretty cool and if that is indeed Fitz on the cover (we presume it is) then he looks […]
Jen Williams responds to opinions on Bookshops’ perceived SFF Prejudice
So, yesterday we published a piece on Fantasy-Faction highlighting the observations made by three of British fantasy’s female authors suggesting that UK Booksellers are selling them and their contemporaries short. A number of comments and tweets came flooding in, and Forum Members even started a topic; the overwhelming feeling was that ‘yes, there is a […]
Sam Sykes Finally Gets an Awesome Cover
I’ve been saying for years that Sam Sykes’s books need some awesome covers. Don’t get me wrong, Sam’s covers for his original series weren’t ‘terrible’, but I did feel that his work deserved so much more. For those who have read Sam’s work you will know that there is something very unique about his voice, […]
David Gemmell Awards – 2014 Longlist Revealed & Voting Open
The Longlists for the David Gemmell Awards has been revealed and voting has opened!!! For those unfamiliar with how The David Gemmell Awards work, the first stage (that has resulted in this longlist) is where publishers nominate titles they think should be considered for the three award categories: best book, best debut and best cover. […]
