The Creatures in the Shadows: West Africa
James Calbraith
Elves, trolls, dwarves, goblins… There’s no denying that the Western fantasy is strongly entrenched in a Northern European mindscape: those ancient myths of the Celtic and Germanic people that inspired…
Sci-Fi Book Club – February 2013: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lisa Taylor
The Sci-Fi Book will be reading in February is Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. “Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak,…
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
For some people the formula for young adult steampunk seems simple. Step 1: Find some classic science fiction from the mid to late 1800’s. Step 2: Add a “plucky” heroine.…
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
Idlewilder
“What kind of story you tryin’ to tell me?” he said gruffly. “A vampire story,” said York with a sly smile. “Surely you’ve heard them before…” Fevre Dream is the…
Fantasy Book Club – February 2013: The Black Company by Glen Cook
February marks the first month of our new themed and subgenre based book club selections. Since we did a very different steampunk book for December and vampires in January, I…
The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
Alex Shepherd
With the impending release of Peter V. Brett’s The Daylight War, the latest installment of his Demon Cycle, I thought the time was ripe to have a look back at…
A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Xiagan
The Wheel of Time, started over 22 years ago, is finally finished. And its last book holds everything that was promised. Even if you’ve only been following what’s happening in…
Catching Up With Myke Cole – Part Two
Eric Christensen
Welcome back to our interview with Myke Cole, author of the military fantasy series, Shadow Ops. If you missed part one you can read it here. And now back to…
The SFF Weekly Round-Up 24/01/13
Paul Wiseall
Welcome back to the Fantasy-Faction weekly round-up of all the best SFF news, fun and nonsense from around the web. I guess the two big news items this week have…
Catching Up With Myke Cole – Part One
One year ago, Jennie Ivins interviewed Myke Cole before his debut novel Control Point was published. Well, it’s another year, Myke has another novel, Fortress Frontier, and Fantasy-Faction got another…
Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier Book Trailer
Overlord
The majority of us here at Fantasy-Faction are big Myke Cole fans. Therefore, when Myke dropped us an e-mail and asked if we were interested in getting the exclusive reveal…
Fade To Black by Francis Knight
Hierath
In this dystopian urban fantasy, the vertical city of Mahala is as much a character as the men and women that pace its walkways or scramble up and down its…