Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Dori
Orbit Books have the most spectacular, eye-catching book-cover designs available – which honestly, is one of the main reasons I decided to pick up Cold Magic, book one of Kate…
2012
Morningstar by David Gemmell
Dominic Stevens
I was 21 when I read my first book by David Gemmell. I had just finished my degree in English Literature, and having spent three years reading the classics, I…
Marc Aplin and Paul Wiseall Interviews
Overlord
WARNING: This is a post reflecting on Fantasy-Faction and how the three editors have been brought together to run this site. The interviews will follow my rambling – please feel…
San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Report – Part 1
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
Ah Comic-Con. Site of one of the largest nerd migration sites in the world and certainly the largest that I know of in North America. Simultaneously awesome and dreadful to…
Why World Build?
A. J. Zaethe
Keeping It Real There is no wrong way to build a world, but there are factors of believability. A world should always be built to be believable, unless of course…
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Hannah
In the realm of Goredd, dragons and humans live side by side in a fragile attempt at peace. Their differences keep them apart; dragons believing humans are irrational, indulging in…
Christopher Paolini Interview
R.T. Kaelin
After graduating from high school at 15, Christopher Paolini began writing Eragon, the first novel of the Inheritance Cycle set in the mythical land of Alagaësia. In 2002, the Paolini…
THE FANTASY FEMINIST: PART 3
Amy Rose Davis
I have two apologies to make to Fantasy Faction readers. First, I apologize for my last article. I sort of phoned that one in. I realized it after I re-read…
Meet Joe Abercrombie, Myke Cole and Peter V. Brett in London!
Fantasy-Faction has grown considerably over the last 18 months. We’ve gone from being a blog, that pretty much only the owner’s best friends and close family read, to an incredibly…
Why Fantasy?
Dan Hanks
For a writer of fantasy, I’ve written remarkably little about fantasy. I can slip it on like a second skin, but never really stopped to think just how easy it…
The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind
Kit
Terry Goodkind brought readers into the world of the Sword of Truth in 1994. Over the series of 11 novels, the reader is taken on a journey of magic and…
Sarah Silverwood / Sarah Pinborough Interview
It was 2011 when I first heard of Sarah Silverwood (criminally late I must add!). A friend of mine was telling me how he’d found a book that was ‘better…