Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
Mike Shackle
It’s not often a book comes along that is so refreshingly different as Ian Tregillis’ Bitter Seeds. Starting with the simple thought of, “What if Superheroes and magic existed in…
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Legion by Brandon Sanderson
Eric Christensen
There has never really been a thriving market for novellas. Along with its misfit sister format the novelette, novellas can be difficult to sell. However, the rise of ebooks is…
Frightening Fantasy?
Rachel Riegel
October is my favorite month, mostly because of the holiday that takes place at the end of it. I am from the United States, so Halloween is a pretty big…
Fantasy World – The Best SFF From The Web
Paul Wiseall
As we all know, the internet is a brilliant place to find incredibly odd and wonderful things so I figured, hey, it’s Thursday, let’s round up all that fun and…
In The Tall Grass by Joe Hill & Stephen King.
With In The Tall Grass, the father and son team of King and Hill collaborate for the second time to create a short but devastating, blunderbuss shot of horror. This…
Dreamsongs: A Retrospective – Book Two by George R. R. Martin
Dominic Stevens
Slightly worrying for all of us A Song of Ice and Fire fans, it turns out George RR Martin has a track record of abandoning series of books and stories.…
Fantasy-Faction Podcast – Episode 1
Overlord
Well, it is with great pleasure that I can bring to you, our loyal readers and now listeners, the first ever Fantasy-Faction Podcast! Yes, we’ve been talking about it for…
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
Nyki Blatchley
I’m writing this time about an epic fantasy novel first published in 1954, featuring a desperate quest, a great war between the forces of light and dark, and a legendary…
The Evolution of Sexuality, Homosexuality and Gender in SFF – Part Two
Leo Elijah Cristea
The introductory article of this series promised that the first part of the real flesh of this series would talk about the linear evolution of the topic. The examination of…
Spotlight on China Miéville
Despite being the only author to have won the Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction three times, it still remains unclear whether Miéville belongs in the sci-fi or fantasy…
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Max Edwards
The universe’s mysteries are innumerable, unknowable and perhaps inconceivable, but science fiction takes a hold and shakes them out into the written word. Clarke brings them into our collective consciousness…
Sci-Fi Book Club – Oct/Nov 12 – Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Idlewilder
The voting for this month’s book has closed. For this month’s Sci-Fi Book Club, we have chosen… Hyperion by Dan Simmons On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of…