Sun Wukong, AKA The Monkey King
Wei Ming Kam
It’s Chinese New Year, and in honour of the Year of the Monkey, I’ve gathered some my favourite adaptations of the Monkey King stories. The Monkey King is one of…
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A Guide to Banking in Fantasyland
Victoria Hooper
This article may contain mild spoilers – though not what I would consider story-breaking spoilers – for The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker, Making Money by Terry Pratchett and Best…
Bloodmage by Stephen Aryan – Cover Reveal
Jennie Ivins
It seems this is cover reveal week on Fantasy-Faction! Today with have the pleasure of revealing the second book in Stephen Aryan’s Age of Darkness series: Bloodmage. The first book,…
A Darker Shade of Magic – TV Series!?
Overlord
Some exciting news landed on our desks today: V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade Of Magic, which we named as one of our best books of 2015, has been picked up…
Emma Newman’s Split Worlds – New Cover Designs
We are big fans of Emma Newman here on Fantasy-Faction. Back in the olden times of 2013 we were lucky enough to host a short story from her Split Worlds…
Fantasy Titles On Our Radar: February 2016 Edition
Welcome to the second edition of ‘On Our Radar’, your guide to Fantasy titles being release in the month ahead. Looking at the quality of titles this month, doesn’t it…
The Top 15 Tweets & Top 7 Blog Posts from Robert Jackson Bennett
Top 15 Tweets The Twitter-feed of Robert Jackson Bennett is a wondrous, but dangerous place to spend time. If you follow Robert in addition to another 1000 or so people,…
Cover Reveal: Joe Abercrombie’s ‘Half A War’
When Joe Abercrombie announced that he would be working on a ‘Young Adult’ series of novels a few years back, no one really knew what to expect. Would the books…
MIGHT EVIL PREVAIL? FANTASIES THAT THREATEN AN UNHAPPY ENDING
Nicola Alter
In fantasy novels, the ‘good’ characters are usually facing overwhelmingly bad odds. Whether it’s a dark lord, a corrupt monarchy, a horde of living dead or an army of supernatural…
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff – Cover Reveal
Wayyyyyyyyyyy back in 2012 I was lucky enough to be sent an advanced copy of a strange fantasy/martial arts/steampunk-hybrid called Stormdancer. I enjoyed that book and gave it a favourable…
Frances Hardinge wins Costa Award
For the first time since Phillip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass in 2001, a Children’s book has won The Costa Book Award. That book is The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge…
Secret Mistborn Novella – Jan 30th!
This post has been updated as Brandon Sanderson has released further details about Mistborn: Secret History following the launch of The Bands of Mourning. The story begins a few weeks…