Fantasy Book Club – May 2011: FEED by Mire Grant
Overlord
Hello Fantasy Fans! Been a good month for fantasy, what with Game of Thrones and some really cool releases hitting shelves. It looks like though (based on the voting) that…
Feed by Mira Grant
Max Edwards
It’s somewhat appropriate to write a blog post about Mira Grant’s Feed, seeing as its concerned not only with zombies, but blogging too. Here one comes and all – an…
Winter is Here
Jamie Provencher
This article is a follow up to our preview of Game of Thrones, which can be read here. Generally, we hate it when books are made into TV shows. In…
Jon Courtenay Grimwood Interview
One of our regular contributors Alister Davison recently emailed me a review of The Fallen Blade (now online click here). To summarise his thoughts on the novel: “A writer more…
Shadows of the Apt Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Books 1 – 3)
Khaldun
Empire In Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky Empire In Black and Gold is the first volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, Shadows of the Apt, about…
The Company by K. J. Parker
Alister Davison
When freshly retired General Kunessin returns home, he has a plan to reunite the four surviving members of his old team and start a better life with them on an…
Mogworld by Benjamin “Yahtzee” Croshaw
ChrisMB
Fantasy fans and the undead have a bit more in common than we feel comfortable admitting, but I’m going to admit it, if only for what the masses of the…
16-Bit Fantasy
Paul Wiseall
I recently found myself driving up to Cheltenham (UK) armed with enough spirits to make a brick wall wobble. The party hosts were a wonderful and newly engaged couple whom…
WIN: The Zombie Autopsies
We have teamed up with the publishers of the absolutely fantastic The Zombie Autopsies who are providing 5 copies of the book as prizes to readers of Fantasy-Faction! This secret…
Non-Human Antagonists
Amy Rose Davis
I’ve spent several weeks talking about heroes, antiheroes, and villains, and how to define them, so I think it’s time to apply the knowledge a little. But first, I want…
Subgenre Bingo – Urban Fantasy
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
After epic fantasy and sword and sorcery (widely considered the staples of the fantasy genre), it is now time to breeze on over to something a little more modern. There…
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Kit
Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers if you haven’t yet read the first book. If there is nothing else to say about Suzanne Collins, one could say that the woman…