2016 Hugo Award Winners
Jennie Ivins
Tonight the winners of the 2016 Hugo Awards were announced, along with the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Congratulations to all the winners! And if you are…
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Confirmation The Thorn Of Emberlain is delayed
Overlord
Over the past few weeks, we’d been hearing a few whispers from our friends in publishing that Scott Lynch’s The Thorn Of Emberlain probably wouldn’t make the September 2016 release…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Space Opera
Xiagan
“Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare and often romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in outer space. It usually involves conflict between…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Our Final Seven
A.F.E. Smith
After much deliberation, the Fantasy-Faction reviewing team has narrowed down the entries in our group to seven. Our task now is to read and discuss these books more closely, with…
Suicide Squad – Movie Review
This review contains spoilers. Read with caution if you have yet to see the movie. I’m going to preface this by saying I don’t normally do movie reviews. Also I…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Getting Close To The End…
The Fantasy-Faction SPFBO team are on the verge of announcing their top seven books! But first, here are a final set of five that didn’t quite make the cut. It…
Force Grey: Giant Hunters – YouTube Show Review
Geoff Matthews
I haven’t played Dungeons & Dragons since my teenage years, and there are days when I miss it. Computer games took over, life got in the way; work, family, children…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Flash Fiction
Postcard Fiction. Short, Short Stories. Micro Fiction. 500 words or less. This month, that’s all our entrants got. Wikipedia says that flash fiction ‘often contains the classic story elements: protagonist,…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Farewell To Another Five
Laura M. Hughes
Writing fiction is like painting Rorschach cards: everyone sees (and feels) something different when looking at what you’ve created. Every review is subjective. And as AFE and GR have observed…
Tropes and Clichés in Epic Fantasy: Is It Time To Move On?
T. O. Munro
I just finished Diana Jones’s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland first published twenty years ago, but still accurately satirical in the shots it takes at the more recognisable “issues” in…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Another Five Fall
Hot on the heels of the last update, here are another five books to which we are sadly saying goodbye. Again, these books all have something to recommend them –…
Syncing Scrivener Files Between Computers Using Dropbox
Adrian Faulkner
One of the simple joys of writing is the fact that it can be done anywhere. All you need is pen and paper. Some writers prefer the structure of a…