Fantasy Makes History Cool
Nicole Singer
I’m a history major at heart, so one of the things I love seeing in fantasy is how authors draw on real-world history to fuel their worlds. Whether it be…
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Monthly Short Story Winner: Apprenticeship
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Gollancz sign Dan Abnett Fantasy Trilogy!
Overlord
We got some pretty exciting news here at Fantasy-Faction today, our friends Gollancz and Dan Abnett are teaming up to publish Dan’s latest series: a self-contained, action-packed heroic fantasy trilogy.…
A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
James Davies
A Darkness at Sethanon is a strange novel. Whilst it brings the Riftwar Saga to a conclusive close, it truly kicked off the large-scale entity now commonly referred to as…
Trailer for Telltale’s Game of Thrones
Lets be honest, to date, there have been two types of Game of Thrones game: 1) Bad, 2) Terrible. However, ever since we heard Telltale had hooked up with HBO…
Class Warfare: Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Literary Fiction
Zachary A. Matzo
The line drawn between so-called literary fiction and genre fiction has always irked me. As I embarked upon a re-read of the first two volumes of Lev Grossman’s frustrating Magicians…
Fantasy Worldbuilding – Ideas for Designing a Civilization
B. Pine
The period in history between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, the period we call the Middle Ages, seem to go hand in hand with epic fantasy. Of course, there are…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Taboos
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Messenger’s Legacy by Peter V. Brett: Review
Novellas are hot this year. Half a decade or so ago, before the eBook, few people would have expected that top-name authors would ever be releasing novellas at a steady…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released! Thoughts…
We’ve waited a long time for this… we’ve fallen for a number of hoaxes saying that they were ‘official trailers’ only to find upon clicking on them that they’re just…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer
Jennie Ivins
Today the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer was released. And it is impressive! Before you read farther, go watch it! Do it! Amazing right? If the trailer is any…
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Richard Bray
A few days before I started reading Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor, I picked up Patrick Rothfuss’s novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Though the stories were different, there…