Final Fantasy XV Trailer… Oh. Wow.
Overlord
I think it’s safe to say Final Fantasy was at it’s peak before it hit double digits. Around that time the series was well known as one of the finest…
Worldbuilding A Religion – Part Three: How Religion Shapes Characters
Rebekah Loper
In Part Two, we learned how religion can affect society and culture as a whole. But you can’t have either of those things without the individual people who comprise them,…
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
Nicholas Schmiedicker
Max Gladstone’s Three Parts Dead is fantasy of a different flavor. Instead of taking our world and adding magic (such as Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files or Myke Cole’s Shadow Ops),…
Maplecroft by Cherie Priest
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
I love a good creepy story. I don’t run across them nearly as often as I’d like since all too often “creepy” gets mistaken for gross-outs and the unexpected bucket…
MAGIC, MONSTERS AND MAYHEM
Edward Cox
Regular readers of Fantasy-Faction will remember the review of Edward Cox’s The Relic Guild we posted a few weeks back. We labelled it ‘a formidable debut from an author with…
Le Guin to be presented Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, will this year have Neil Gaiman present Ursula K. Le Guin their 27th lifetime achievement award, the Medal for Distinguished…
Resistance by Samit Basu
Victoria Hooper
This review contains spoilers for Turbulence. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the first book. Resistance is the sequel to the brilliant superhero novel Turbulence, in which…
The Slow Regard Of Silent Things Preview
If you listened to our The Slow Regard of Silent Things interview with Patrick Rothfuss last month, you will remember that Pat spoke about his nervousness and excitement in narrating…
Building A World: Basic Concepts
Geoff Matthews
If you search this site you will find a variety of articles that encourage you to think about how you are going to build your stories fantasy world. You can…
Fantasy and Science Fiction in Anime and Manga – Part One: Historical and Epic Fantasy
Aleksander Cristea
Books, movies, video games are all widely known platforms for science fiction and fantasy. Anime and manga, on the converse, are a less known medium for the genre. Japanese mangaka—manga…
Thieves’ Quarry by D. B. Jackson
Jo Niederhoff
Ethan Kaille is a thieftaker in pre-Revolutionary Boston, working outside the law to apprehend thieves and recover stolen property. For the most part he deals with small-time theft, things that…
Half A King by Joe Abercrombie
Introduction Fantasy is a genre often slated for being stale by those with reading interests outside of it. Popular authors are pointed at and told they just repeat the same…