Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan
Jo Niederhoff
Unspoken made me fall in love with the most remarkable cast of characters I’d ever encountered in a young adult novel. Kami Glass, intrepid high school reporter (and girl who…
Guardians of the Flame by Joel Rosenberg – Series Review
Geoff Matthews
“A one. How did I roll a one?” “Your mage miscasts his spell and, without warning, the white filaments of the web spell smother your friends in a sticky embrace,…
Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig
Dan Hanks
Chuck Wendig is a name most readers here will recognise. A stellar writing force on the internet, his opinions, arguments, sage advice and (often) sage profanity are well known and…
Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues edited by J. M. Martin
Richard Bray
The overwhelming majority of characters in Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues, edited by J.M. Martin, are not very nice people. These aren’t loveable rascals, playing harmless tricks in…
Suicide: More Than a Plot Device
Peter Orullian
When I built the world for my fantasy series, The Vault of Heaven, I intentionally made it a dire place. Not bleak, I don’t think. At least, not all of…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Religion
Xiagan
December. The darkest month with the longest night of the year. Harsh and cold days and mankind struggling in winter’s iron grip. Separated through walls of snow from others, one…
Bloomsbury Reveal First ‘Harry’ image for upcoming Harry Potter Illustrated Edition Re-Releases…
Overlord
Bloomsbury Books have revealed the first picture of their ‘new’ Harry Potter. Unlike some of the other images they’ve released that will feature in the upcoming Illustrated Editions of the…
Genres: Stirring The Pot
Peter Higgins
I was a reader for decades before I began to really work at becoming a writer. Ever since I was a boy I read anything I could get my hands…
Mad Max: Fury Road – Movie Review
Charlie Hopkins
George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is an absolute cinematic tour de force and the only ones in disagreement are a small group of men who found the women in…
Robert A. Heinlein: More Fantasy than Meets the Eye
Raymond K. Rugg
Robert A. Heinlein is known as the dean of science fiction, and was the first Grand Master of the genre. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are collectively known…
Waterborne Exile Cover Reveal & Preview
It’s no secret that Angry Robot Books are amongst Fantasy-Faction’s favourite SFF publishers here in the UK. Having been lucky enough to meet a number of their team at conventions…
“The Witcher: Sword Of Destiny” Extract
The Witcher is far more than the title/class of a character in an SFF Book in its native Poland. In its country of origin, the series of novels and short…