Movie Adaptations: Is the film version ever allowed to best the novel?
Ashley Barnard
Up until a few years ago I was one of many book lovers who firmly believed it’s virtually impossible for a film adaptation to be better than the novel it’s…
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Monthly Short Story Winner: Storms
Jennie Ivins
Some of you may not know this, but along with Fantasy-Faction being an awesome site for readers of fantasy, we also house a growing collection of published and aspiring authors.…
Fantasy-Faction World Tour of Wonderment – Italy
Paul Wiseall
Hey folks. I recently found myself packing up my piece of crap car and moving from England to Italy and so, I decided that my next article had to be…
Gollancz To Launch World’s Largest Digital SFF Library
Overlord
There is no doubt about it, Gollancz is the UK’s leading publisher of fantasy fiction. Just a quick browse of the fantasy shelves in WH Smiths or Waterstones will reveal…
Surfing the Network – Part Three
Sandra Norval
If you missed part one or two of this article series you can read them here: Part One: http://fantasy-faction.com/2011/surfing-the-network-part-one Part Two: http://fantasy-faction.com/2011/surfing-the-network Many a traveller will tell you that an…
Announcements – Coming Soon!
Fantasy-Faction.com has been increasingly popular these last few months. Loyal fantasy fans seem to be flocking to our community and enjoying the interaction with other fans, the articles, the reviews…
Anticipating A Dance with Dragons
We are under a week away from our “Dance with Dragons” and evidently the world is excited. Just six months ago I made a post saying that A Dance with…
Winter has come… And gone.
“Winter is Coming” – it is all we heard for months and months before April’s premiere episode of Game of Thrones. HBO really went for it – they literally shoved…
Meeting Brandon Sanderson
As I write this, I’m sitting in Paddington Station, London. Pretty much every train has been cancelled and I’m going to be at least two or three hours late home.…
Fantasy Books We NEED Now
Overlord’s Top 4 Fantasy Books We Need Right Now 2012/2013 seems a long way off, but I’m looking to it already…dreaming…wishing it would hurry the heck up!!! Some of the…
An Introduction to Manga
When you think of comics it seems normal in the Western world for minds to jump to the likes of Spider-man and Batman. In fact, these days characters like the…
Magic In Fantasy: An Introduction
Leo Elijah Cristea
Magic has been around since the dawn of fantasy: in fact, much of what makes fantasy “fantasy” is the magic that permeates the genre. Even throughout worlds and stories veering…