THE KITSCHIES: Winners Announced!
Overlord
Last month I spoke about why, and how much, I love The Kitschies Award. Essentially, it is because of their mission statement, ‘to reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and…
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15 Minute Game of Thrones Season 4 Preview/Q&A
We’re still a few months away from Game of Thrones Season 4, but HBO aren’t going to just leave us to wait it out… Over the past few weeks we’ve…
Sam Sykes’s Tome of the Undergates just £1.49
If you’re a fantasy fan and user of social media you’ve no doubt stumbled across one of Twitter’s loudest, most outspoken and damned right funny SFF personalities, Sam Sykes. Well,…
Feb’s Top 5 UK Fantasy Kindle Deals
Every month Amazon.co.uk and UK Publishers work together to choose a number of titles to offer to us SFF fans at crazy prices (usually 99p). Unless you are checking regularly,…
Scalzi’s Redshirts latest SFF to be picked up for TV
2014 is proving to be a good year to be an SFF writer. It seems almost every couple of weeks Fantasy-Faction is reporting that another author’s work has been optioned…
Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Lead Concept Artist draws Rothfuss’s Kvothe
Matt Rhodes, the Lead Concept Artist on Dragon Age: Inquisition, has digitally created a pretty damned awesome portrayal of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kvothe. Matt explains: “Process wise, this was a self-inflicted…
Wheel of Time Fan Film: “Flight From Shadow”
For those who haven’t seen it, a very good fan-made movie set in The Wheel Of Time universe has been making it’s way around the web, Flight From Shadow. The…
Words of Radiance is a BIG Book!
We got an e-mail yesterday saying that the proof versions of Brandon Sanderson’s second book in the Stormlight Archive, Words of Radiance, series have hit and we should soon be…
American Gods to TV… No… Really!
I know, I know… you’ve heard it before, right? But, Neil Gaiman himself has said that American Gods is now REALLY in development for television. The company who now own…
Video Montage: Best Visual Effects Oscar Winners
Very cool montage of clips from the winning films in the ‘Best Visual Effects’ category of The Oscars. All credit to Nelson Carvajal who put the video together. This year’s…
New ‘Cover Art’ Direction for Paul Cornell’s Shadow Police series…
If you live in the UK and are involved in the SFF Community, you’ve no-doubt come across Paul Cornell at a convention or two. If you’re a reader of Comic…
JK: ‘Harry Potter should have ended up with Hermione’
It has been a good few years since the final Harry Potter book was released, but J.K. Rowling has rekindled interest in the series by revealing that she feels she…