The Kitschies’ Shortlists Revealed
Overlord
The Kitschies is an award unlike any other within the SFF Genre. Unlike so many others, this isn’t a popularity contest, it isn’t about who has the most fans, there…
A Town Called Pandemonium edited by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin
Dominic Stevens
A Town Called Pandemonium is the latest short story collection from Anne and Jared at the always excellent geek blog pornokitsch.com. They have even made the introduction to their collection…
The SFF Weekly Round-Up 17/01/13
Paul Wiseall
Welcome back to the Fantasy-Faction weekly round-up of all the best SFF news, fun and nonsense from around the web. This week has been a bumper one for videos. Seriously,…
The Magic of Shadows Ops Universe + Contest
Myke Cole
In honor of Myke Cole’s second book release, we are giving away three signed copies of his first book, Control Point! All you have to do is tell us which…
Successors in Fantasy – Handing Over the Reins
Nicholas Schmiedicker
Like many of my fellow fans of fantasy I am going to be deeply enveloped in one of the most anticipated books of, arguably, all time. I’m referring of course…
The Oathbreaker’s Shadow Cover Reveal
Last year, we at Fantasy-Faction had the privilege to reveal the cover to a book that we rightly predicted to be one of the best YA novels of 2012 –…
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
Robbie Cameron
Weight is, at its heart, a re-imagining of the myth of Atlas and Heracles (also known as Hercules in Rome and the modern west). As punishment for siding with Cronos…
07-Ghost by Yuki Amemiya and Yukino Ichihara
Dori
Creators Yuki Amemiya and Yukino Ichihara deeply remind me of George R. R. Martin – they love to kill off beloved characters, and torture their fans by not letting go…
The SFF Weekly Round-Up – 10/01/13
Welcome back to the Fantasy-Faction weekly round-up of all the best SFF news, fun and nonsense from around the web. We’ve successfully made it in to the second week of…
The Fade by Chris Wooding
Steff Humm
The opportunity for creative worldbuilding is one of the many (many, many, many) things that makes fantasy the bestest genre in the known ‘verse. Discovering a new world, especially a…
Slaine: The Horned God by Pat Mills and Simon Bisley
Alister Davison
Slaine Mac Roth, Celtic warrior and berserker, first appeared in the pages of the comic 2000AD way back in the early 1980’s. I still remember that first episode, where Slaine…
Lost Worlds by Clark Ashton Smith
Nyki Blatchley
The golden age of pulp fantasy is often considered to be the years when the American magazine Weird Tales was being published (1923-1954) and particularly the decade when it was…