Breach Zone by Myke Cole – UK Cover Reveal
Overlord
Huge News: Fantasy-Faction has been lucky enough to secure yet another Myke Cole cover reveal! I have to say that as impressed as I was with the covers that gift-wrapped…
YA Science Fiction and Fantasy – Part Four: The Spotlight
Leo Elijah Cristea
There is such a wealth of YA SFF that sometimes navigating the shelves can be difficult. At the moment, YA is somewhat fashionable, and that’s good, because when something is…
Why You Should Read The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker
Pornokitsch
The Fantasy-Faction Book Club, proving the wisdom of crowds, has selected K.J. Parker’s The Folding Knife for its September read. With a few weeks to go until it begins, there’s…
Kinslayer by Jay Kristoff
Nicholas Schmiedicker
Kinslayer is Jay Kristoff’s latest installment in his Lotus War series. The story picks up not long after the end of Stormdancer, Shogun Yoritomo is dead at the hands of…
Fantastical Creatures of Greco-Roman Mythology: Orthrus, the Two-Headed Little Brother
Faith M. Boughan
It’s got to be tough, being a younger sibling of famous monsters. Your brother and other siblings get all the attention, the best jobs, and all the limelight in the…
Den Patrick Interview
If you haven’t heard of Den Patrick yet, wait a few minutes. Because today his series is coming out from Gollancz, and Den’s hitting the fantasy scene like Orcrist. Den’s…
Pantomime by Laura Lam
Victoria Hooper
Pantomime is the debut young adult fantasy novel from Laura Lam, a wonderful book that is so much more than it first seems to be. Set in a Victorian-inspired world,…
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy edited by Mike Ashley
Steff Humm
“Extreme” seems like a pretty loose term in a genre where the only limit is the mind’s capacity for imagination, but Mike Ashley’s anthology, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy,…
Gentleman Bastard Read Along – Chapters 1-4
Week 1 – Chapters 1 – 4 Welcome to the first week of our incredibly in-depth Read Along of The Lies of Locke Lamora. I asked you guys over Twitter…
Selleuk’s Bridge: A Short Story by Nathan Hawke
Jennie Ivins
Gallow – Truesword, Griefbringer and trouble for anyone who crosses him – is a brand new fantasy ‘hero’ from author Nathan Hawke. The first book in his new Gallow series,…
Goddess by Josephine Angelini
Joie
Ever wonder about what the gods of Greek mythology would be up to if they existed in today’s world? Well, Josephine Angelini has decided to put her own spin on…
A Blink Of The Screen by Terry Pratchett
Alister Davison
If you’d asked me a couple of years ago if I was a fan of Terry Pratchett, I’d have answered a resounding no. I’d read his first three books back…