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…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Joker Month
We had a lot great contest themes this year and I know that some people didn’t manage to finish their stories on time for some of the contests or didn’t…
Self-Published Fantasy Redux: Riyria. Revelation.
Zachary A. Matzo
My favorite fantasy books of 2015 have been self-published. For a guy that wrote “Self-Published Fantasy and Me” for this very website, that is quite an admission. And while I…
A Look At Points Of View
Aaron Miles
What point of view to write from is one of the most significant decisions a writer can make about their work, yet with so many aspects of writing craft to…
Laura Lam’s “Dark Circus” to be completed with Tor!!!
Fantasy-Faction were heart-broken when we heard that publishing imprint Strange Chemistry would be folding. Authors such as Laura Lam, who had written books like Pantomime that scored 9 & 10…