Fantasy novels often include magical creatures. Peruse the fantasy section of your favorite bookstore and you’ll see plenty of dragons, vampires and other impossible things on the front covers. Dragons…
As part of Bloomsbury’s rereleasing of the Harry Potter books with the slogan ‘IT’S TIME TO PASS THE MAGIC ON…’, the publishing giants have just revealed their latest new ‘children’s…
The UK’s leading ‘cool stuff’ shop, Firebox, has recently added ‘Dragon Meat‘ to their list of unique and interesting products. The ‘Flame Grilled Delicacy’ is labelled as ‘freshly slain’ and…
Many of us involved in blogging about Epic Fantasy literature have a special love of the David Gemmell Awards. Not only are they attached to David Gemmell, one of fantasy’s…
The types of spirits known as fairies exceeded the number of ways the word was spelled. Fairy godmothers were given human dimensions, oftentimes without wings. Tinkerbell was tiny with dragonfly…
So, demons in fantasy? A quick (and I mean a super, uber, single) search on Google for “Demon Fantasy” doesn’t yield much: the books that flag on Amazon are all…
A little while ago, I started a discussion about the grey heroes and the Mr. or Ms. Goody-two shoes. Interestingly, there were a lot of people that supported the entire…
Between 1977 and 2005, 28 years, the world saw just six Star Wars movies. Well, now Disney has their hands on the franchise they are ready to kick things up…
I remember a few months back when Joe Abercrombie’s Half a King cover was released there were a few people who were unsure about it. I think the problem was…
From humble (but rather excellent) self-published beginnings, British/Australian author Alan Baxter has established himself as a widely respected writer—and excitingly has a new series coming out from Harper Voyager in…
The majority of fantasy readers will be familiar with Nick Harkaway, the highly acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker – both of which were smothered with awards. This…
One of our favourite authors, Joe Abercrombie, has released details for his UK and US Tour – it’s not complete, there are still events to be added, but it should…
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