Wild, Dark Times by Austin Case
Richard Marpole
The Setup Elizabeth Megalos is an ordinary bank teller who expects to live an ordinary life. Her illusions are shattered when one of her friends gets possessed by an evil…
Author Spotlight: Elizabeth Haydon and The Symphony of Ages Series
S. H. Paulus
Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Symphony of Ages series. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the books. The Prophecy of the Three The Three…
Kingdom – TV Series Review
Rakib Ahmad Khan
On the first glance kingdom might look like just another TV show featuring zombies, trying out the concept in a new setting. But if you start looking deeper you will…
The Nine Realms by Sarah Kozloff – Series Review
L. A. Young
Robert Jordan, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Brent Weeks, Samantha Shannon, Haruki Murakami and Robin Hobb. These names go with epic fantasy, or any fantasy story that has…
The Dresden Files – TV Series Review
Geoff Matthews
Twelve episodes of Dresden goodness, of magic and Murphy. How could you pass this up? How could you not want to watch?
6th Annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off: Cover Contest
A. M. Justice
“I may not know much about art, but I know what I like.” That is the punchline of a Monty Python sketch in which the Pope and Michelangelo argue over…
Three Flavours of Binge-Worthy SFF Podcasts
Stuck indoors? Trying to drown out those inner anxiety voices? Just want a new fix of audible SFF goodness? Let us serve you three flavours of podcast. Neapolitan style! Strange…
Firefly – The Big Damn Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
Kellie Doherty
I am a big damn Firefly fan. You know this about me. It’s an amazing show, and the fandom flowed from my pen many times in the past. (See these…
6th Annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off: An Introduction to the SPFBO
Fantasy-Faction has been part of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)—a fantasy fiction competition sponsored by Mark Lawrence—from the beginning, and as the sixth round of the competition kicks off, we’re…
A Tale of Stars and Shadow by Lisa Cassidy – Spoiler Free Review
Pippa
A Tale of Stars & Shadow is the first book in the series of the same name by Australian author Lisa Cassidy. It is a dual perspective story following Talyn…
Out of Body by Jeffrey Ford
Jonathan Thornton
“There’s so much going on at night, in the shadows, that people who spend most of their waking time in the sunlight have no idea about. Neon and spotlights and…
A Walk Among the Trees: A Look at Forests in Myth and Media
Forests have always been places of enchantment, haunted by outlaws, gods, angry ghosts and ferocious monsters. Walk a while with me. The wind sings through the leaves. Birds squabble in…