Creating a Fantasy Race
Aaron Miles
The fantasy genre is filled with an astonishing array of wildly different races that populate our stories. Some are drawn from older myths and legends like elves and dwarfs while…
Exile by Martin Owton
Steven Poore
Shortlisted for last year’s Best Newcomer prize at the British Fantasy Awards, Exile is the first half of Martin Owton’s Nandor Tales – the story concludes in Nandor, also through…
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
JC Kang
Napoleonic Wars? Check. Age of Sail naval culture? Check. Hints of Asian civilizations? Check. Dragons? Check. The only thing that could make me want to read His Majesty’s Dragon more…
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
A. M. Justice
How many times have you read something that made you gasp aloud? I’ve cried pretty liberally over events—Dobbie’s death and burial (HP and the Deathly Hallows), the duel between Ammar…
Django Wexler Interview – The Infernal Battalion
Eric Christensen
Back in 2013, Fantasy-Faction interviewed Django Wexler as the first book in his Shadow Campaigns series, The Thousand Names, was about to come out. So it’s only fitting that we…
The Infernal Battalion by Django Wexler
The Infernal Battalion is the fifth and final book in Django Wexler’s series, The Shadow Campaigns. And when it comes to a series finale, I’m looking for any final mysteries…
M. John Harrison Interview – You Should Come With Me Now
Jonathan Thornton
M. John Harrison’s first story was published in New Worlds in 1968. Since then he has proved himself one of the most interesting writers in genre. His Viriconium stories, beginning…
Deadhouse Landing by Ian C. Esslemont
Richard Marpole
Spoiler Warning: This review contains minor and very general spoilers for the Path of Ascendancy series. But then this is a prequel series so the spoilers here are no worse…
Locked Up Abroad: Lessons From the Streets of Fantasy – Guest Blog by K. S. Villoso
K. S. Villoso
You ever wonder if a fantasy novel can actually help you survive in a real life situation? I don’t mean teach you about sword-fighting and how to slay dragons, or…
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Jessica Juby
Amazon. Born of war, destined to be ruled by no one but herself. Warbringer opens with Diana, Princess of the Amazons and daughter to Queen Hippolyta, struggling to come to…
Space Mavericks by Michael Kring
Geoff Matthews
“I activated.” And on those words you are carried away into a world of adventure and action. Actually, as this is sci-fi, more than one world. I own two copies…
Fantasy-Faction’s Best Fantasy Books of 2017
Jennie Ivins
2017 was a heck of a year! And we mean that we a giant *SIGH* right after it. But while the world around us seem to darken as the year…