Is It Better To Be A Blank Slate Or To Have Some Character?
Eric Christensen
In a recent blog post, Mark Lawrence commented on the trade offs of creating a blank slate character versus a more defined, idiosyncratic character. In the post (and I highly…
Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman
Zachary A. Matzo
Am I painting with a wide brush when I say that, for most of us, children’s books are something we read as, well, children? Or to children, maybe? Rarely, if…
Chinese ‘Lord of the Rings’ Covers FTW!
Overlord
They’ve only just come to the attention of the masses, but the following Lord of the Rings book covers were designed by artist Jian Guo almost a year ago now.…
First Strange Chemistry Author Snapped Up!
A few months back the SFF community took a huge blow when we lost the Strange Chemistry imprint. Although the label hadn’t been making the kind of revenue it needed…
Batman if Square Enix got their hands on him…
There was recently a lot of talk about how Ben Affleck would look as Batman. Most people thought he’d probably just about pull off the look, but weren’t too sure…
Worldbuilding: Food For The People
B. Pine
We all need food to live. Even in fiction, food plays a part in most stories, whether it is a simple supper at a boarding house or a grand wedding…
Jackson Facebooks new ‘Hobbit’ poster
Peter Jackson decided to get us Hobbit fans all excited yesterday by releasing a special SDCC edition of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” poster on his Facebook…
Rjurik Davidson Interviews Ben Peek
Rjurik Davidson and Ben Peek
Rjurik Davidson is the author of the novel, Unwrapped Sky, recently released by Tor in the US and UK. A novel that SciFiNow noted “can go toe-to-toe with China Miéville’s…
The Oathbreaker’s Shadow FINALLY gets US release date
We at Fantasy-Faction were big fans of Amy McCulloch’s The Oathbreaker’s Shadow. In fact, we rated it as one of our top fantasy titles of 2013. It seems we were…
Combating Cynicism
Aaron Miles
I was watching the most recent Karate Kid film, the one with Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith – I got to the scene with the chopsticks where Chan is eating…
Rogues edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Charlie Hopkins
G.R.R.M. states in his introduction that’s the “Rogues is not meant to be a fantasy anthology” but I picked it up for the authors that I knew from being a…
Women Write Fantasy
There have always been serious issues revolving around gender parity and sexism in the fantasy community. Whether this is the depiction of women – as little more than damsels in…