The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
Geoff Matthews
“The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex…
Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch
Jo Niederhoff
I’ve done a post on sequels before, and on the difficulty of making them both true to the original book while still building on the world and the characters. I…
‘I actually started worldbuilding…’ by Sam Sykes
Sam Sykes
Today we are delighted to welcome one of our favourite authors Sam Sykes (also known as Samus Sykesimus on the Roman Gladiator circuit) to Fantasy-Faction. I don’t really need to…
Gateway to Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda
Zachary A. Matzo
I was eight years old on August 22, 1987—the day The Legend of Zelda was released in the United States. A month later I turned nine and received a copy…
The Passage Readalong: Chapters 1-5
Overlord
Hello everyone, Ah… What a week! If this is your first time reading The Passage, then I hope you are enjoying the ride. I think these early chapters may have…
King’s Quest: A Knight to Remember – Video Game Review
Victoria Hooper
King’s Quest is an episodic adventure game, heavy on story, featuring puzzles and challenges along the way. It’s a reimagining from developer The Odd Gentlemen (published under Sierra) of the…
13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough
Jonathan Thornton
“People so often try and make themselves look good when they lie. That, however, should never be the point. The point should be to distract from the truth. Whether you…
Is Fantasy for Gardeners?
Stephen Deas
At some convention in the distant past on some panel about something or other, someone once asked me whether I was an architect or a gardener. I had really no…
The Endless Journey
Aaron Miles
I recently began reading The Complete Chronicles of Conan Centenary Edition by Robert E. Howard, this weighty tome may well require the strength of a barbarian to lift it, such…
Apocalypse how? Vehicle modding inspiration for the end times
Matt Hill
In my new novel Graft, the Britain of 2025 has all but collapsed. Up in lawless Manchester, local mechanic Sol props up his workshop business by stealing cars and scavenging…
Dragon Hunters by Marc Turner
The first book in Marc Turner’s Chronicles of Exile series, When The Heavens Fall, got an array of positive reviews when it was released in 2015. We found it to…
Writing Multi-Layered Narratives
Adam Christopher
Ideas Are Easy There’s a joke about writers: never ask them where they get their ideas from. The question might be met with a roll of the eyes, and the…