The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
KJ Braxton
Are you ready for adventure, magic and drug fuelled dragons? Come sit down with Kvothe and get consumed in his world. The blurb alone is enough to convince anyone to…
Goodreads Choice Best Fantasy of 2013 is…
Overlord
Well, no real surprises in this years Goodreads Awards… annoyingly in some respects. As I hinted at in my blog post a few weeks back – when I discussed the…
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol (Translated by Michael Biggins)
Aleksandra Kesek
‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’ – The Supreme Ismaili Motto Alamut is an impenetrable fortress which houses a small Ismaili army ruled by the enigmatic Hasan ibn Sabbah. He…
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
Zachary A. Matzo
Editor’s Note: This review contains minor spoilers for the entire Low Town trilogy. If you search for “define warden” on Google, you’ll get the following: a person responsible for the…
Nnedi Okorafor Interview
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
Acclaimed author Nnedi Okorafor was kind enough take some time to answer some questions for us about her books and worldbuilding. Her stories are a panorama of rich imagery and…
Amazon’s Best SFF of 2013
Amazon have released a list of books that they consider to be the top 20 SFF books of 2013. Although I imagine Fantasy-Faction’s Best of 2013 list will be fairly…
Hour long presentation on Writing Muslim American Fantasy by Saldin Ahmed
Grand Rapids Community College‘s library (of which this video holds all right and deserves all credit for) hosted an evening with Saladin Ahmed, an award-winning science fiction-fantasy author. You can…
Short, Sweet Interview with Terry Brooks
I have just stumbled across an awesome interview between an Italian fan and bestselling fantasy author Terry Brooks. In this fun, lighthearted interview Terry talks a bit about why people…
The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
M. M. Beresford
The Wild Girls is a Nebula award-winning novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, republished in 2011. It follows the story of two girls kidnapped and sold into slavery as children,…
Finally, World can finish Michael J. Sullivan’s books
A few months back one of Fantasy-Faction’s forum members wrote to renowned author Michael J. Sullivan (also a forum member) to ask why his books weren’t available to certain countries……
After NaNoWriMo
Eric Christensen
So, if everything goes to plan, in a few hours you will have written 50,000 words in the month of November. Congratulations! That is quite an accomplishment, and you should…
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
Because this is the first review of Red Country (that I’m aware of) and we’ve been given the exclusive trailer, which you can see above – this review is a…