Sanderson shows Rothfuss a real wordcount…
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When it was announced a few months back that the release date for Brandon Sanderson’s second book in his Stormlight Archive series, Words of Radiance, had been moved all the…
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Brazilian Mistborn Cover… Rocks!
A few years ago I was really excited when the UK had their Brandon Sanderson books freshened up with some really nice abstract covers. Sanderson’s work has always been a…
A GOOD Game of Thrones game is coming!
Lets be honest… so far all of the Game of Thrones games have sucked. A Game of Thrones: Genesis, a strategy game, was uninspired and boring; whilst Game of Thrones,…
Public Lending Right Payments frozen – Authors hit by Government’s library cuts.
Earlier this week I picked up on a Tweet by one of Britain’s best loved Fantasy Authors, Juliet McKenna. Juliet was somewhat dismayed about a Government announcement – no surprise…
How many of the Top 100 Fantasy Authors have you read?
Here’s a quick question for you… How many of the Top 100 Fantasy Authors have you read? No idea? Well, it is time for you to find out! Fantasy-Faction has…
G.R.R. Martin on which character changed most in TV Series
Last night, George R.R. Martin appeared on a BBC One documentary to discuss the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli’s notorious book The Prince, which he said had a profound influence on…
Goodreads Choice Best Fantasy of 2013 is…
Well, no real surprises in this years Goodreads Awards… annoyingly in some respects. As I hinted at in my blog post a few weeks back – when I discussed the…
Amazon’s Best SFF of 2013
Amazon have released a list of books that they consider to be the top 20 SFF books of 2013. Although I imagine Fantasy-Faction’s Best of 2013 list will be fairly…
Hour long presentation on Writing Muslim American Fantasy by Saldin Ahmed
Grand Rapids Community College‘s library (of which this video holds all right and deserves all credit for) hosted an evening with Saladin Ahmed, an award-winning science fiction-fantasy author. You can…
Short, Sweet Interview with Terry Brooks
I have just stumbled across an awesome interview between an Italian fan and bestselling fantasy author Terry Brooks. In this fun, lighthearted interview Terry talks a bit about why people…
Finally, World can finish Michael J. Sullivan’s books
A few months back one of Fantasy-Faction’s forum members wrote to renowned author Michael J. Sullivan (also a forum member) to ask why his books weren’t available to certain countries……
Major TV Broadcasters ‘intrigued by fantasy’
There has been much talk and speculation over the past few years about whether the success of the television adaption of A Game of Thrones would open doors for more…