Peter V. Brett Interview
Overlord
Peter V. Brett has done something to fantasy that very, very few authors before him have managed. He has burst into the genre and written a book that is damned…
The Well at the World’s End by William Morris
Nyki Blatchley
Restless in his home, a rural, backwater country, the hero sets out into the wide world on a dangerous quest that has to do with a piece of jewelry. Crossing…
Fantasy Book Club – October 2011: A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
Hello Fantasy Fans! This month we will be reading A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham. Saraykeht is poised on the knife-edge of disaster. The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is…
Paul Evanby Interview
Paul Wiseall
Ladies and gents, in a follow up to last week’s article about fantasy from The Netherlands, it is with the greatest pleasure that we present to you one of the…
Beyond The Pale by Mark Anthony
Elloise Hopkins
I stumbled across this book entirely by accident almost a decade ago when I was on a working holiday in Australia. I had been in Sydney for several weeks working…
Shadow Fox by Ashley J. Barnard
Jennie Ivins
Jared Bruin has felt out of place his whole life. In his current home of London, England, he has few friends, and after his adopted American mother dies, no family.…
Blake Charlton Interview
Leo Elijah Cristea
Blake Charlton, author of Spellwright, the imminent Spellbound, and the forthcoming Spellbreaker, isn’t your usual kind of fantasy writer. Of course he’s as charming as the next writer, and has…
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Paolo Chikiamco
Child of Fire is the first novel in Harry Connolly’s Twenty Palaces urban fantasy–well, perhaps urban horror would be a more appropriate term–series (three books long so far), featuring ex-convict…
What Not To Do At A Reading
Ashley Barnard
My trip to California last month marked a memorable occasion: I did my first book signing in my hometown, at the bookstore where I practically grew up, The Avid Reader…
The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
Jesse Flohrs
Hello again, Faction readers! First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who read my first article on Peter V. Brett. I really appreciated all the comments,…
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Alister Davison
I wasn’t expecting much with this one. Sure, I’d read several reviews that glowed enough to light a room – even the posh critics, those who turn their nose up…
Fantasy-Faction World Tour of Wonderment: The Netherlands
Welcome back to the Fantasy-Faction World Tour of Wonderment, where I aim to shine the spotlight on individual nations and their contributions to the fantasy world. So up to now…