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Fantasy-Faction’s Best Fantasy Books of 2014
We fantasy readers were some of the luckiest people alive in 2014 because fantasy publishers around the world just kept on giving and giving. Previous years we’ve done a top 10 of our favourite books, then last year we were forced to produce a list of 25. Well, this year, we’ve stepped things up again. […]
Three More Witcher Novels & Witcher 3 Game Play
We are delighted to hear from our friends over at Gollancz towers that they’ve acquired three more books in ’s THE WITCHER series. For those unfamiliar, the stories centre around a character – The Witcher, Geralt – who is a kind of mutant assassin that’s been trained since childhood to hunt down and destroy monsters. […]
Fantastic Four trailer released!
This’ll be a quick post, but because we featured it on our most anticipated movies of 2015 list, we thought we should let you know that the first trailer for the Fantastic Four reboot has been released! The reason we’re excited about this reboot is because we can’t believe Fox would press ahead with a […]
Harry Potter gets a new look in upcoming ‘Deluxe’ Editions
Bloomsbury Publishing has revealed a new look for Harry Potter and his wizarding world. They come with the announcement that the publishing firm are working on a new deluxe hardback edition of the book that will be loaded with 110 full-colour illustrations and a unique cover done by renowned artist, Jim Kay (a Kate Greenaway […]
Most Anticipated Sci-Fi / Fantasy Movies of 2015, 2016 and 2017.
It has been a strong few years for Epic (depending how you judge Avatar & The Hobbit), Urban and Dystopian Fantasy movies. It probably stemmed from the Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings franchises, but has been taken to a whole new level by Twilight and Marvel’s array of hits. To be honest, […]
Fantasy-Faction: Reddit’s Best Fantasy Site 2014!
Today we received some exciting news: Fantasy-Faction has been selected by the Reddit community as Fantasy Website of 2014! When I started Fantasy-Faction it was because I wanted to share my passion for fantasy novels. I was sitting at home on a daily basis exploring incredible new worlds, stumbling across amazing beings and having unforgettable adventures. […]
Fantasy-Faction nominated for Reddit’s Best Fantasy Website 2014
2014 has been an incredible year for Fantasy-Faction. We were nominated for the British Fantasy Award and the World Fantasy Award earlier in the year and now I’m here, writing this, to offer a huge, huge thank you for nominating us for Reddit’s ‘Best Fantasy Site of the Year’ too! This is the third year […]
Brandon Sanderson Updates World on his Ongoing Projects & Provides Mistborn Release Dates
Some exciting news came out of the Gollancz towers today: Brandon Sanderson will be releasing two new Mistborn books in 2015/2016 and they’ve got release dates. Mistborn: Shadows of Self will be coming in October 2015. Mistborn: Bands of Mourning will be coming in January 2016. Although not too many details of the books have been released, we know that […]
The Vagrant by Peter Newman – Cover Reveal & Competition
Every year hundreds, if not thousands, of genre books are released. Generally the most looked forwards to of these are by authors who have had previous successes. For début authors you generally have to trust that the person in your publisher’s press department is skilled at their job. You see, what typically happens is that a […]
Interview with Jonathan Oliver
Here in the UK we have some of the very best Editors and today I feel incredibly privileged to interview one of my favourites and one I truly look up to – as someone who recently published their own anthology and first short story – Jonathan Oliver. For those unfamiliar with Jonathan, he is Editor-in-chief […]
We learn new Star Wars character names…
Get ready to meet Finn, Rey, Kylo and Poe. No… they’re not Teletubbies, they’re the characters we’ll be meeting in 2015’s new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, produced by J.J. Abrams. The names of the characters played by John Boyega (Finn), Oscar Isaac (Poe) and Daisy Ridley (Rey) were revealed via some retro style playing […]
Fantasy-Faction Take Part in Quercus Books’s #GreatestGift Christmas Campaign
Who enjoys being filmed? No one, right? Certainly not me… the moment a camera is pointed in my direction I’m likely to bolt in the other direction. However, when I was contacted by my friends over at Quercus and Jo Fletcher Books about their The greatest gift is the passion for reading Christmas Campaign, I […]
