Jackson Facebooks new ‘Hobbit’ poster
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Peter Jackson decided to get us Hobbit fans all excited yesterday by releasing a special SDCC edition of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” poster on his Facebook…
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The Oathbreaker’s Shadow FINALLY gets US release date
We at Fantasy-Faction were big fans of Amy McCulloch’s The Oathbreaker’s Shadow. In fact, we rated it as one of our top fantasy titles of 2013. It seems we were…
Women Write Fantasy
There have always been serious issues revolving around gender parity and sexism in the fantasy community. Whether this is the depiction of women – as little more than damsels in…
Queen’s Guards perform Game of Thrones theme
A few weeks ago we posted some pictures up of the Queen’s visit to the set of A Game of Thrones. That was actually in Belfast, Ireland, but today we’ve…
Myke Cole’s ‘Gemini Cell’ Cover Revealed
Fantasy-Faction has been lucky enough to do a number of the UK cover reveals for Myke Cole’s Shadow Ops novels. I must admit that in August last year, when we…
Del Ray put together one heck of a US Sampler…
We really like Del Ray books. They make a real effort to connect with genre fans through Suvudu, one of the best Science Fiction & Fantasy blogs around. In addition,…
Robin Hobb’s new US covers (complete contrast to UK)
Wow, it seems that we’ve done a lot of posts on Robin Hobb’s cover art lately! That said, I’m not complaining… a big problem that the publishing industry has is…
Terry Brooks talks about The High Druid’s Blade
Having just finished The High Druid’s Blade by Terry Brooks I can confirm that it is a very good read. I’ve only read four of Brooks’s previous books and despite…
Marc Simonetti brings Discworld to life!
I’ve raved a fair bit about Marc Simonetti on Fantasy-Faction before. In case you missed those posts, he’s a French artist who has been in high demand by a number…
Scott Lynch updates fan on The Thorn of Emberlain
When Scott Lynch and his publishers, Gollancz, told us we may get our hands on The Thorn of Emberlain – the forth book in the Gentleman Bastard sequence – in…
SyFy orders ‘The Magicians’ Pilot
In news that will either delight or terrify you – depending on your thoughts as to SyFy’s low budget shows – the SyFy Channel has ordered a pilot episode for…
The Joe Abercrombie YA Experiment is a success!
We all love Joe Abercrombie here at Fantasy-Faction, but when we heard that Lord Grimdark was to give writing a Young Adult novel a shot we couldn’t help but react…