Six Scenes With Jesper
Overlord
The wonderful Leigh Bardugo has a hugely anticipated novel coming out soon: Crooked Kingdom. It’s the sequel to what many consider one of last year’s very best novels, Six of…
Marc Turner Interview
Laura M. Hughes
Here at Fantasy-Faction we’re stupendously excited to host Marc Turner, author of the epic fantasy series The Chronicles of the Exile. It’s no secret that we have a soft spot…
50 Years of Star Trek
Geoff Matthews
Let me make this clear from the start; I wasn’t alive when the first episode of Star Trek was broadcast on the BBC. The last episode (discounting the ‘banned’ episodes…
Red Tide by Marc Turner
“What was she thinking? This couldn’t be murder; this was war. Killing wasn’t murder if you stole the victim’s country while you were at it.” Marc Turner is without doubt…
Gollancz have gone mad!
Just a very quick post to let you know that a ton of titles from Gollancz (including some new, highly-anticipated ones) are just 99p on the Kindle here in the…
Where do you get your ideas from?
James Barclay
Sometimes out of the mouths, well hands, of babes and sucklings it seems… It’s a question many writers dread and I think it’s because it’s so hard to give any…
Dracula vs. Hitler by Patrick Sheane Duncan
Charlie Hopkins
Ravaged by the Nazi Secret Service during World War II, Romanian resistance forces turn to one of their leaders, Professor Van Helsing for any way out. To fight these monstrous…
Nothing Is As It Seems
Edward Cox
I’ve always referred to The Relic Guild Trilogy as a single story chopped up into three books. Mostly because it’s true. It is the tale of a secret band of…
The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster
Jonathan Thornton
This review contains spoilers. Please read with caution if you have yet to finish the story. Tor’s novella series was started in 2015, with the aim of promoting this shorter…
The Key by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren
Jo Niederhoff
This review contains spoilers. Read with caution if you have yet to finish Fire (Eld) and The Key (Nyckeln). Engelsfors has been saved from the cult of positivity that attempted…
Off Leash by Daniel Potter – SPFBO Review: And Then There Were Four
The SPFBO team are making steady progress in our search for a finalist. To avoid cruelly stretching things out, we’ll be posting (in no particular order) individual reviews for those…
Valley of Embers by Steven Kelliher
Tough to be young or old in this Valley of ours. The night is dark and full of terrors, especially for the besieged inhabitants of the Valley of Embers. In…