Fantasy Book Club – July 2012 – The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Overlord
This month we’ve got a book that is known as one of the finest pieces of fantasy literature ever written. The sad thing is, as many books as I’ve devoured,…
Overlord
The David Gemmell Legend Awards 2012
The Awards The David Gemmell Legend Awards are quickly becoming one of the industry’s most desirable accolades, and it’s easy to see why. Firstly, there’s the fact that the big…
Wheel-Mouse vs All The Crazy Robots
Wheel-Mouse vs All The Crazy Robots is a joint project between fantasy author Mark Lawrence and his daughter, Celyn. Now, I wouldn’t want Mark to take too much of the…
Fantasy Book Club – June 2012 – Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
With a mere touch of your skin Miriam Black can tell when and how you will die. She’s seen old age take its toll, car crashes and heart attacks. Watching…
Brandon Sanderson’s Self-Publishing & Small Press Releases
I woke up this morning to find an interesting post on the Fantasy-Faction Forums. It was by a gentleman who was going to be self-publishing a number of titles and…
The Man Who Thought He Was King
Yesterday night over 1,350 people visited a thread on Fantasy-Faction by a self-published author named M. R. Mathias. I hate to further bring attention to what has since been called:…
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
This review contains spoilers for book one. If you haven’t read Prince of Thorns yet, then read this review with caution. You can read Fantasy-Faction’s review of Prince of Thorns…
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls is a book that I would never have picked up. It was only because it won The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel that I’d even…
The Double-Edged Sword by Sarah Silverwood
Sarah Silverwood is actually a pseudonym; the author of The Double-Edged Sword’s real name is Sarah Pinborough. For anyone who hasn’t heard of Sarah Pinborough before, let me begin by…
Irenicon by Aiden Harte
In the world that Irenicon is set, just after Jesus Christ was born, he was murdered. Torn from the arms of his mother, Mary, Jesus was killed by King Herod…
The City’s Son Cover Reveal
It’s not often that you read a book and feel sorry for the publishers, but that happened to me with Tom Pollock’s novel, The City’s Son. Oh, it wasn’t bad;…
Babylon Steel by Gaie Sebold
When you’ve been reading within the fantasy genre for a while, you tend to familiarise yourself with the tropes and even find yourself looking for them as you read through…