Dragons: Classifications
Leo Elijah Cristea
Last time we considered dragons as a general species, to introduce their role in fantasy fiction, giving introductory examples of their usual staging and appearances in the stories we relish.…
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Monthly Short Story Winner: The Deep
Jennie Ivins
In this month’s short story contest, participants wrote us stories about ‘the deep’. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at the winner, here is the…
Reflections on A Memory of Light
Zachary A. Matzo
Editor’s Note: This article DOES NOT contain any spoilers. And so it ends. Twenty-two years and over four million words later, I’ve finished A Memory of Light. The 14th and…
The Chaotic Champion – Part Seven: The King Hero
Nyki Blatchley
For nearly a thousand years, great authors and poets have written virtually uncountable quantities of words about King Arthur. Each has tried to sum up what was special about that…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Mazes
Welcome back to our monthly writing contest winner post. This month our contest participants wrote stories about mazes. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at…
Fantasy Writer’s Resources
Eric Christensen
I think it is fair to say that every writer has a bookshelf containing well-thumbed, go-to resources. Odds are that shelf contains a dictionary, a thesaurus, and a style guide…
Breach Zone by Myke Cole – UK Cover Reveal
Overlord
Huge News: Fantasy-Faction has been lucky enough to secure yet another Myke Cole cover reveal! I have to say that as impressed as I was with the covers that gift-wrapped…
YA Science Fiction and Fantasy – Part Four: The Spotlight
There is such a wealth of YA SFF that sometimes navigating the shelves can be difficult. At the moment, YA is somewhat fashionable, and that’s good, because when something is…
Why You Should Read The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker
Pornokitsch
The Fantasy-Faction Book Club, proving the wisdom of crowds, has selected K.J. Parker’s The Folding Knife for its September read. With a few weeks to go until it begins, there’s…
Fantastical Creatures of Greco-Roman Mythology: Orthrus, the Two-Headed Little Brother
Faith M. Boughan
It’s got to be tough, being a younger sibling of famous monsters. Your brother and other siblings get all the attention, the best jobs, and all the limelight in the…
Selleuk’s Bridge: A Short Story by Nathan Hawke
Gallow – Truesword, Griefbringer and trouble for anyone who crosses him – is a brand new fantasy ‘hero’ from author Nathan Hawke. The first book in his new Gallow series,…
The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock – Chapter Excerpt
Today, F-F is lucky enough to be allowed to host an extract of Tom Pollock‘s latest novel in his Skyscraper Throne series, The Glass Republic. Last year, Tom’s City’s Son…