Elements of Fantasy: Elves
Janie Bill
Ever glimpsed a spark of light moving around fertile trees? You experienced the sight for picking up on elf activity. Elves are angelic tree-spirits that reside side by side with…
2015
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
For financial reasons, I like to wait until paperback releases for a lot of books. Most of the time this isn’t a big deal. Other times (and it’s been happening…
Enduring War: The Continuing Allure of Warhammer
Nick Clark
Warhammer – you’ll probably know it for its long list of computer games, its plethora of licensed novels, or the venerable tabletop battle game itself. Almost certainly you’ll have seen…
Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews
Joie
Ahem. Please ignore the cover – and the publisher marketing, for that matter. And no, you did not go to the wrong website. This is still Fantasy-Faction. 😉 Burn For…
Most Anticipated Sci-Fi / Fantasy Movies of 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Overlord
It has been a strong few years for Epic (depending how you judge Avatar & The Hobbit), Urban and Dystopian Fantasy movies. It probably stemmed from the Harry Potter and…
Firefight by Brandon Sanderson – Exclusive First Chapter Excerpt!
Jennie Ivins
We at Fantasy-Faction have long been huge fans of Brandon Sanderson. And how could we not? With a catalog of over 15 full length novels in 8+ series, besides his…
The Iron Ghost by Jen Williams
Hierath
Jen Williams’ debut novel, The Copper Promise was one of my personal highlights of 2014. It came out last January, which seems a long time ago now, and The Iron…
Fantasy-Faction: Reddit’s Best Fantasy Site 2014!
Today we received some exciting news: Fantasy-Faction has been selected by the Reddit community as Fantasy Website of 2014! When I started Fantasy-Faction it was because I wanted to share…
So What’s The Fuss About Calibre?
Adrian Faulkner
There’s a lot of discussion surrounding ebooks at the moment: about how they are going to kill the paperback, how they will revolutionise publishing, how they’ll never be as good…
The Start Of All New Things
Nicole Singer
With the New Year not long gone in our rear-view mirrors, it’s a perfect time to ponder “fresh starts” in fantasy. Usually, they signal a momentous turning point in the…
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
James Davies
The Gunslinger is the first novel of a seven book-long series (eight if you include the spin-off) of what is now considered to be a staple of the epic fantasy…
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Zachary A. Matzo
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings Peter Jackson’s filmic reimagining of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tales of Middle-Earth to a close in epic fashion, and with the emotional…