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‘Dragonriders of Pern’ Movie?
With the success of the Game of Thrones TV show, television studios have been optioning and piloting a number of our favourite fantasy novel series over the last few years. The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss, the Shannara books by Terry Brooks, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, to name but a few. And now it seems Hollywood […]
Win Robin Hobb & George R.R. Martin Tickets
As you have no doubt heard by now, George R.R. Martin and Robin Hobb are soon to be visiting London. This world exclusive event will offer readers the opportunity to spend an evening listening to two of the world’s greatest storytellers, discussing how they build their fictional universes, create their characters and balance fantasy and […]
All 7 Harry Potter ‘Children’s Edition’ Covers Released
Regular readers of Fantasy-Faction will be fully aware that Bloomsbury plan to re-release new editions of Harry Potter later this year. Essentially, the publisher are putting together what they call ‘Children’s Editions’ of the books that are editions that adults and older siblings can give to a new generation of readers. The slogan for this […]
Epic Fantasy Dream Team do a panel together
When I was younger I’d spend hours talking with friends about football, usually we’d discuss which players should form a team together and take on the world: Fantasy Football, I think it’s a thing now. I wanted David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Freddie Ljungberg and Frank Lampard all playing together in my midfield (sorry, I do […]
‘Lords of the Fallen’ looks pretty awesome
We at Fantasy-Faction are pretty big fans of Dark Souls, despite having gone through about six controllers playing it (they keep accidentally hitting the wall). So, when we heard that the developers were working on a new game that looked to include more traditional fantasy elements into it (such as a relatively deep story and […]
Peter V. Brett’s ‘Messenger’s Legacy’ Announced!
We here at Fantasy-Faction are huge fans of Peter V. Brett’s Demon Cycle books. Now at number three in the series, with book four due next year, what we’ve come to appreciate – in addition to the excellent way the plot is moving forwards – is Peter V. Brett’s almost unmatched ability for writing a story […]
Game of Thrones Season 4 Bloopers!
We all know that HBO’s Game of Thrones stars have a good sense of humour, because they’ve often appeared on lighthearted talk shows. However, HBO themselves have always maintained the seriousness and darkness of the show in their marketing. That is, until now! At this weekend’s Comic-Con in San Diego, HBO put together a Game […]
Chinese ‘Lord of the Rings’ Covers FTW!
They’ve only just come to the attention of the masses, but the following Lord of the Rings book covers were designed by artist Jian Guo almost a year ago now. Jian designed the covers for a competition run by Chinese Publishers, Wenjing Publishing. Guo is well known online for his unique style of art that […]
First Strange Chemistry Author Snapped Up!
A few months back the SFF community took a huge blow when we lost the Strange Chemistry imprint. Although the label hadn’t been making the kind of revenue it needed to survive, its authors were getting attention through largely positive reader reviews and a fair share of award nominations . This, of course, made the […]
Batman if Square Enix got their hands on him…
There was recently a lot of talk about how Ben Affleck would look as Batman. Most people thought he’d probably just about pull off the look, but weren’t too sure about how his acting would hold up. Anyway, we’re not talking movies today. Imagine, instead, if Square Enix had the money and desire to license […]
Jackson Facebooks new ‘Hobbit’ poster
Peter Jackson decided to get us Hobbit fans all excited yesterday by releasing a special SDCC edition of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” poster on his Facebook page. Without any explanation or ‘check out this piece of awesomeness’ type comment he simply asked: “Anyone else excited about San Diego Comic Con?” That […]
The Oathbreaker’s Shadow FINALLY gets US release date
We at Fantasy-Faction were big fans of Amy McCulloch’s The Oathbreaker’s Shadow. In fact, we rated it as one of our top fantasy titles of 2013. It seems we were right in doing so as well, because when I attended the Young Adult Literature Convention a few weeks back Amy was getting lots of attention […]
