The Shadow’s Curse Cover Reveal
Overlord
I’m hoping that many of you have had the opportunity to read and enjoy one of 2013’s very dest debuts, The OathBreaker’s Shadow by Canadian fantasy author Amy McCulloch. If…
Survey of Fantasy Subgenres – Part One: High and Low Fantasy
Marsha A. Moore
A big hello to Fantasy-Faction readers! I’m happy to be a new member of the Fantasy-Faction staff and would say thanks for the great opportunity. As my first series of…
Michael J. Sullivan on why he is jumping from Fantasy to Sci-Fi
Michael J. Sullivan
Some of the most fun I’ve had reading novels over the last few years have come as a result of Michael J. Sullivan. His novels aren’t huge, epic, Game of…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What it Means to be a Female Hero
Steff Humm
It’s been nearly eleven years since the end of the cult TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer but after all this time it remains a significant contributor to fantasy history.…
James Cameron will produce 3 more Avatar movies
‘Avatar’ director James Cameron held a Reddit AMA this weekend and although it was essentially to discuss and promote his Years of Living Dangerously, there was a lot about Avatar…
Have we made Dragons and Demons too cute and cuddly?
Stephen Deas
To celebrate the release of Stephen Deas’s The Dragon Queen coming to paperback, we have for you today a very cool article on the emasculation of dragons in contemporary fantasy…
Fantasy Book Club – April 2014: Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
Jennie Ivins
This month we are reading Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts as our selection for an Asian inspired SFF. Magic and murder engulf the realm…
Winter is coming… for at least 2 more years
In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Game of Thrones has been renewed for a fifth and six season. During the announcement, Michael Lombardo, president of HBO Programming, said:…
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
Travis Anderson
BioWare has created a number of my favorite video game franchises. Alongside the critically acclaimed Knights of the Old Republic, their blood soaked fantasy world of Dragon Age and alien…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Betrayal
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Writing Is Like LEGO and It’s Awesome
Adrian Faulkner
Somewhere out there, in the aether of time and space, is a scientific report waiting to be written about the links between writers and LEGO. Just about every writer I…
Sanderson’s Mistborn gets Hunger Game’d for YA Audience!
A few months back we brought you the news that Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy had some pretty awesome new covers made up for its Brazilian release this year. Well, with…