THE KITSCHIES: Winners Announced!
Overlord
Last month I spoke about why, and how much, I love The Kitschies Award. Essentially, it is because of their mission statement, ‘to reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and…
The Atlantis Gene by A. G. Riddle
Joie
The age-old question of “where did we come from?” is given another twist in A. G. Riddle’s debut novel, The Atlantis Gene. Mythology and science fiction combine to create a…
Joanne Harris Interview
February 12th 2014 sees the release of one of the most unique, fun and wondrous fantasy novels set to be released this year, The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris.…
15 Minute Game of Thrones Season 4 Preview/Q&A
We’re still a few months away from Game of Thrones Season 4, but HBO aren’t going to just leave us to wait it out… Over the past few weeks we’ve…
Sam Sykes’s Tome of the Undergates just £1.49
If you’re a fantasy fan and user of social media you’ve no doubt stumbled across one of Twitter’s loudest, most outspoken and damned right funny SFF personalities, Sam Sykes. Well,…
Last Minute Emergency Valentine’s Day Card!
It’s Valentine’s Day… What? You forgot!? Well, don’t worry… as per usual, we have your back. Just for you, Fantasy-Faction has created a Game of Thrones themed Valentine’s Day Card…
Son of the Morning by Mark Alder
Alister Davison
Welcome to the 14th Century. King Edward of England wages war against King Phillip of France, both sides of the conflict that history will know as the Hundred Years War.…
Feb’s Top 5 UK Fantasy Kindle Deals
Every month Amazon.co.uk and UK Publishers work together to choose a number of titles to offer to us SFF fans at crazy prices (usually 99p). Unless you are checking regularly,…
Scalzi’s Redshirts latest SFF to be picked up for TV
2014 is proving to be a good year to be an SFF writer. It seems almost every couple of weeks Fantasy-Faction is reporting that another author’s work has been optioned…
Autodrome by Kim Lakin-Smith
Hierath
Eddie Izzard used to do a sketch where he talked about how you only get car chases in movies, never in books. And the reason you don’t get them in…
The Falconer by Elizabeth May
KJ Braxton
Faeries are having a resurgence in recent years and when I say faeries I don’t mean Tinkerbell, rather David Bowie in Labyrinth but far more sinister. May brings you into…
Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Lead Concept Artist draws Rothfuss’s Kvothe
Matt Rhodes, the Lead Concept Artist on Dragon Age: Inquisition, has digitally created a pretty damned awesome portrayal of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kvothe. Matt explains: “Process wise, this was a self-inflicted…