Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell
Richard Bray
“I’ve recently discovered that people rarely tell the whole truth.” “Is that what you’re here to do then, Kellen?” Osia’phest asked hopefully. “Tell the whole truth?” I smiled. “No, my…
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Tabletop Tuesday: Player Characters Keep It Interesting
Trent Cannon
Not long ago, I wrote about how important it is to be able to improvise when running a tabletop roleplaying game, whether the genre is fantasy, sci-fi, or something altogether…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Corpses
Xiagan
Corpses. Still trickling blood or ancient and dusty. Result of a horrible crime or a fatal accident. Left where they should be or somehow missing. Stone-dead or fake and still…
The New Voices of Fantasy edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman
Charlie Hopkins
If these ladies and gentlemen represent the future of fantasy we are in for a wild and terrific ride. All the stories have been published since 2010 so whilst they…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Pirates
Ahoy, me beauties!!! Be prepared and polish up your pirate lin’o! Pirates have a tradition on this here site, so get your hooks polished and start spinnin’ some yarn! Only…
City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
Eric Christensen
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first two books in The Divine Cities trilogy. Read with caution if you have yet to finish City of Stairs and City…
Putting It Right, At Last: Must Read Women Authors in Fantasy
Geoff Matthews
My first article, sent ‘on spec’ to Fantasy-Faction, and written when I was feeling my mortality quite keenly, was a simple affair. I’d written The Stone Road and put it…
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – Movie Review
Malcolm Pope
You know, it’s always struck me as rather odd that, despite there being dozens of amazing stories about King Arthur and his Round Table out there, there’s never really been…
Top 10 Things To Do in a Fictional Castle
Nicola Alter
For those of us who like a touch of the magical and the medieval, nothing quite beats a visit to a fictional castle. But with all those trap doors, winding…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Story Generator
This month’s theme has many fathers and mothers. Lady_Ty who posted the Shakespeare Adaptation Generator in the Ideas Topic on the Fantasy-Faction forum, Raptori who modified it (we kept some…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Potions and Elixirs
Outside of RPGs and adventure games, potions hadn’t been very popular until a certain professor humiliated a little wizard student lesson after lesson in his potion class. This month our…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Well-Known Fairy Tales from a Different Point of View
We know these stories by heart – but only from the hero’s POV. Did you ever think about the motivation and justification the big bad wolf had for eating Red…