Top 10 Anticipated Fantasy Books for 2013 – Readers’ Choice
Overlord
For the last few years we’ve run articles where we’ve chosen our top 10 most anticipated novels for the coming year. They’ve proved overwhelmingly popular, amassing just shy of 200,000…
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Peter V. Brett’s The Daylight War Cover-Off
In my opinion, Peter V. Brett is one of the finest examples of a modern fantasy author. For those of you who don’t know why I’m such a huge fan…
The Week In The World Of SFF
Paul Wiseall
Welcome back ladies and gents to the weekly round up of the very best genre news and nonsense from the wonderment that is the interwebs. Aiming to send some smiles…
Fantasy-Faction is 2 Years Old!
This is an exciting month for Fantasy-Faction, because it’s our birthday! That’s right, Fantasy-Faction has been running for exactly 2 years (as of 3rd December 2012). It’s actually difficult for…
Disaster Advice from Science Fiction and Fantasy
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
Natural disasters are something that all of us live with regardless of location. Hurricanes, droughts, wildfires, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes…it’s a really long list of the things that could go wrong…
DestinyQuest – Putting The Game Back Into Gamebooks
Michael J. Ward
We are teaming up with our friends over at Gollancz to giveaway 3 sets of the two DestinyQuest books currently available, The Legion of Shadow & The Heart of Fire.…
Where Is Fantasy Headed?
Ben Galley
Change is good they say. Change is progress. Well we’ve seen a lot of mighty changes in the book industry over the last decade, seismic changes that have redefined the…
The Week In The World Of SFF
Welcome back ladies and gents. How’s your week been? Good I hope. Here’s the week in the very best SFF news and fun from around these fine interwebs of ours.…
Which Writers Are Asking The Hard Questions Today?
Eric Christensen
As I move from summer to winter, I tend to switch from lighter, fun reads to deeper, more complex reads. I don’t know if I am simply echoing Hollywood’s transition…
The Evolution of Sexuality, Homosexuality and Gender in SFF – Part Three
Leo Elijah Cristea
Arguably one of the main issues hounding the progress and subsequent filtration of LGBT themes into “mainstream” SFF is something that mirrors the treatment of “alternative” sexualities and genders in…
The Week In The World Of SFF
Happy Thanksgiving World! So this week we’ve seen the release of the final Twilight movie. I hear it’s awful… I mean, brilliant. In fact, I hear it’s soooooo good that…
A Moratorium On The Monomyth
Ryan Howse
Of all genres, fantasy is generally closest to mining the heroic journey archetypes for its inspiration. For some authors, the intent is to uphold these ideals; others wish to subvert…