Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Sonia Grace
Illuminae was a good time from beginning to end. The plot itself is fairly straightforward – teenagers break up, teenagers’ planet gets invaded, teenagers barely escape onto improvised evacuation ships…
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What Remains of Heroes by David Benem
Richard Bray
We’re all well aware that, as the old saying goes, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But after reading What Remains of Heroes, book one of A Requiem…
Looking For Jake & Other Stories by China Miéville
Lew Kelly
Looking for Jake and Other Stories is China Miéville’s first collection of short stories, published in 2005. It’s an imaginative, thoughtful, political and highly original collection of work, a melding…
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
James Davies
Onto book 5 of The Dark Tower series and King brings us back to the ka-tet we know and love. After the hectic craziness of The Waste Lands and the…
Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley
Eric Christensen
Last year, in my review of Kameron Hurley’s THE MIRROR EMPIRE, I called that book different, difficult, wildly inventive, risky, and provocative. EMPIRE ASCENDANT levels up on all counts. In…
Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
Nicole Singer
I was a little surprised how much I liked this book. A race of birds? Songbirds that fly in and out of people’s lungs? Sky vessels and squallwhales? There’s plenty…
The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung – SPFBO Review
At 210 pages, The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids isn’t trying to be the next bookshelf-bending epic fantasy that changes the way you think about the genre. Instead, it’s…
Magic-Price by C. L. Schneider
Stephen Rhodes
Like most people who frequent the pages of Fantasy-Faction, I read a lot. I have many favourite authors who have released several books or even several series. Being a writer…
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Alister Davison
If you’d asked me ten years ago what I thought of fantasy, I’d have told you I wasn’t a fan anymore. That’s changed now (thanks to Abercrombie and Lynch), but…
Review: Dreamland by Robert L. Anderson
Overlord
I’ve made a real effort to widen my Young Adult reading over the last year or so. Mostly this is the result of multiple conversations I had with authors at…
The Riddle-Master’s Game by Patricia A. McKillip – Series Review
Jonathan Thornton
“Who is the Star-Bearer and what will he loose that is bound? What will one star call out of silence, one star out of darkness, and one star out of…
Dead Man’s Reach by D. B. Jackson
Jo Niederhoff
The ending of a series is almost always rather sad, but sometimes it is necessary. There are those series that seem to go on for far too long, and what…