Priest by Matthew Colville – Fantasy-Faction’s SPFBO Winner
Overlord
I was sent 27 Self Published novels to read as part of Mark Lawrence’s Self Published Fantasy Blog Off. The process of the SPFBO is that 10 Fantasy blogs around…
Terry Pratchett attacked by Guardian Journalist Jonathan Jones…
A disappointing article appeared in The Guardian today entitled “Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius“. The journalist who wrote the piece, Jonathan Jones, begins by telling readers…
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Alister Davison
Time flies: It’s thirty years since Clive Barker’s first novel, The Damnation Game, was published. A tale of Faustian proportions, it – along with his short story collections The Books…
Authors & Stories Announced for Warrior Women edited by Paula Guran
We love our Science Fiction and Fantasy anthologies here at Fantasy-Faction and although the title ‘Warrior Women‘ for Paula Guran’s upcoming collection had us a little concerned, we’ve been able…
Magic: The Gathering – A Fantasy Lover’s Perspective
Shambralyn Baker
There are lots of games out there for fans of fantasy, both video and table-top. Dungeons & Dragons is probably the most well-known table top fantasy game, but Wizards of…
Gender and Stereotyping in Fantasy – Part Two: Switching Roles
Leo Elijah Cristea
In the first part of this series we began to explore a couple of points, not least of all the idea that we are creating a new kind of gender…
Robert Holdstock: Mythago Wood and Lavondyss
Jonathan Thornton
A fire is burning in Bird Spirit Land. My bones smoulder. I must journey there. Forests are naturally places of mystery and wonder. Full of life and growth, they are…
Fantasy Influences: Ancient Greek Mythology – Part One
Victoria Hooper
When we think of typical fantasy, we tend to imagine a setting influenced by western medieval ideas, complete with knights, horses, longswords and dragons. However, there are much deeper, older…
MTV’s Shannara Characters Revealed
MTV have released cast photos of their upcoming “The Shannara Chronicles” series that will be based primarily on Terry Brooks’s The Elfstones of Shannara (book 2 in the Shannara series…
The Price of Faith by Rob J. Hayes
Richard Bray
With The Price of Faith, the third and final book in Rob J. Hayes’ The Ties that Bind series, Hayes once again returns to the central plot established in the…
New Joe Abercrombie book announced!
So, Joe Abercrombie’s Young Adult trilogy has now finished. Although 5 years ago we’d never have entertained the idea that Joe would go down the YA route we were so…
2015 Hugo Awards: No Dogs Allowed?
Eric Christensen
On Saturday night, the winners of the 2015 Hugo Awards (and the not-a-Hugo John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) were announced as part of the 73rd World Science…