Shadow of the Colossus – Video Game Review
Juan de Dios Dougnac
Thanks to Sony’s marvelous PSN Plus service, I recently got the chance to play Shadow of the Colossus, one of the great classics of the Playstation 2 era that, in…
Public Lending Right Payments frozen – Authors hit by Government’s library cuts.
Overlord
Earlier this week I picked up on a Tweet by one of Britain’s best loved Fantasy Authors, Juliet McKenna. Juliet was somewhat dismayed about a Government announcement – no surprise…
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
Mike Shackle
Welcome back to Low Town and the world of the Warden, a disgraced secret police enforcer turned drug dealer. It’s not a place for the faint-hearted but for anyone who…
Subgenre Bingo – Steampunk
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
For a lot of people, steampunk is less a speculative fiction variant and more a fashion and decorating aesthetic. That’s okay (far be it for me to say it isn’t)…
Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams
Alister Davison
Happy Hour in Hell sees angel Doloriel–AKA Bobby Dollar–make a welcome return, following on from his adventures in The Dirty Streets of Heaven. If you haven’t already pounded those pavements…
How many of the Top 100 Fantasy Authors have you read?
Here’s a quick question for you… How many of the Top 100 Fantasy Authors have you read? No idea? Well, it is time for you to find out! Fantasy-Faction has…
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – The Finish
Stephen Deas
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed any of the…
G.R.R. Martin on which character changed most in TV Series
Last night, George R.R. Martin appeared on a BBC One documentary to discuss the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli’s notorious book The Prince, which he said had a profound influence on…
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…
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…