Elspeth Cooper adds her thoughts on Industry’s Sexism Problem
Overlord
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…
March 2014
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Twitter has been alight with the news that one of the UK’s biggest and best known talk show hosts, Jonathan Ross, has withdrawn from his role as Master of Ceremonies…
A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin – Review Part One
Samuel S. B.
After years of making us wait, 2011 rolled into town and so did Mr. Martin’s long awaited book, number five in a planned seven book series. It is safe to…
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…
Orleans by Sherri L. Smith
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
I find the post apocalyptic genre simultaneously interesting and frustrating. I think that it has a lot of interesting potential to comment on social trends and social experimentation, but I…
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.…