Fantasy Book Club – July 2014: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Jennie Ivins
For July, our members voted to read Red Rising by Pierce Brown. The war begins… Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the…
Open Letter to Former Strange Chemistry Authors
Overlord
Dear Former Authors of Strange Chemistry, Many of you would not have heard of me, but my name is Marc Aplin and I run a website named Fantasy-Faction. Fantasy-Faction is…
Skin Game by Jim Butcher
Declan Barnes
This review contains some minor spoilers. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the story. You would expect that after fourteen books a fantasy writer might start to…
Angry Robot Shuts Down YA & Crime Fiction Imprints
I was saddened to hear that Angry Robot Books will be shutting down their Young Adult (Strange Chemistry) and Crime Fiction (Exhibit A) imprints. Angry Robot is probably one of…
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
So after reading through Annihilation, I immediately looked up when Authority was coming out in order to present myself at my favorite bookstore and acquire it as soon as it…
Forgotten Male Fantasy Authors Of The 80s
Geoff Matthews
Editor’s Note: Due to the lack of women writers on this post, Fantasy-Faction has posted a similar version focusing on women writers who readers of today may not have heard…
Rise and Fall by Joshua P. Simon
Aaron Miles
I skimmed through a number of books in my kindle backlog before this review. Some I rejected because there were too many errors in the text, some because the characters…
Worldbuilding A Religion – Part One: Religion vs. Cult
Rebekah Loper
Those of you who have followed Fantasy-Faction for a couple of years (or pretty much since the beginning) will probably remember the Creating God series of articles by Amy Rose…
Fantasy Medicine – Part Two: Pretty as a Bairnwort
B. Pine
Disclaimer: If you stumbled upon this post while looking for medical advice or information, please note that this article was NOT written for this purpose. Please do not take any…
Magic The Gathering Movie Coming? GoT Writer Involved…
News broke today that Game of Thrones Writer, Bryan Cogman, is set to write a number of movies based on the popular ‘Magic The Gathering’ card game. According to Deadline,…
Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord
Mike Reeves-McMillan
There’s a small, but flourishing, group of Caribbean writers of African descent working in SFF at the moment, and I’m starting to read their work and, so far, finding it…
Fantasy and Studio Ghibli – Part One: “Trees and people used to be good friends.”
Lucy Hounsom
I am a huge fan of Studio Ghibli animation. Its films are famous for their meticulous detail, beautifully-paced exposition and subtle handling of difficult themes. But what I’d like to…