Toastmaster for Nebula Awards Named…
Overlord
Whilst we wait to see who replaces Jonathon Ross as the host of the Hugo awards, the SFWA – who have also struggled with their own bout of controversy lately…
Overlord
A Monster Calls Movie: 2016 Release.
A few years ago I reviewed and raved about a remarkable book, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Well, having been ‘optioned’ by Hollywood quite some time ago, it seems…
Fantasy-Faction & Gollancz team up to bring you Chapters 1-7 of Words of Radiance
With just one more sleep until the publication of Words of Radiance, Fantasy-Faction have teamed up with Gollancz Books to bring you a special treat to celebrate this week’s edition…
Game of Thrones deaths recreated as 8-bit GIFs
An absolutely incredible pixel artist, Antonia Heslop, has recreated the top 14 most brutal deaths of The Game of Thrones series as 8-Bit GIFs. The author has put them in…
Words of Radiance, Stormlight Archive 2: Just £6.99
Hey guys, If you act quickly, you can order Brandon Sanderson’s Word’s of Radiance, Book 2 in The Stormlight Archive Series and Fantasy-Faction’s Most Anticipated Novel of 2014, for just…
Elspeth Cooper adds her thoughts on Industry’s Sexism Problem
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…
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Twitter has been alight with the news that one of the UK’s biggest and best known talk show hosts, Jonathan Ross, has withdrawn from his role as Master of Ceremonies…
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…
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.…
Sam Sykes Finally Gets an Awesome Cover
I’ve been saying for years that Sam Sykes’s books need some awesome covers. Don’t get me wrong, Sam’s covers for his original series weren’t ‘terrible’, but I did feel that…
David Gemmell Awards – 2014 Longlist Revealed & Voting Open
The Longlists for the David Gemmell Awards has been revealed and voting has opened!!! For those unfamiliar with how The David Gemmell Awards work, the first stage (that has resulted…
Ginjer Buchanan retiring from Ace/Roc
Just picked this up from Myke Cole: Ginjer Buchanan, editor-in-chief of Ace and Roc Books, is set to retire in March 2014, exactly 30 years after she was hired by…