The Riddle-Master’s Game by Patricia A. McKillip – Series Review
Jonathan Thornton
“Who is the Star-Bearer and what will he loose that is bound? What will one star call out of silence, one star out of darkness, and one star out of…
fantasy
Fool’s Quest by Robin Hobb
Lew Kelly
This is a spoiler-free review of Fool’s Quest. However there are spoilers for all prior Realm of the Elderling books. What a privilege it is to review Robin Hobb’s sixteenth…
Top Ten Fictional Pirates
Victoria Hooper
Avast, matey! Talk Like a Pirate Day be coming up, so pull up a barrel and help yerself to some grog as I be running through a list of my…
The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
Joie
Zombies and vampires are so yesterday. Angel mythology appears to be the new frontier. The House of Shattered Wings spins its tale about The Fallen, angels who have been cast…
Bloodrush by Ben Galley
Richard Bray
Welcome to the Wild West, he thought. Last stop before Hell. The fantasy genre has long been filled to the brim with coming-of-age stories. Chances are, if you’re perusing Fantasy-Faction…
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Wei Ming Kam
One of my most anticipated books of this year comes out on September 10th – you may have seen people like Naomi Novik, Lavie Tidhar and Ann Leckie lauding Zen…
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Alister Davison
Time flies: It’s thirty years since Clive Barker’s first novel, The Damnation Game, was published. A tale of Faustian proportions, it – along with his short story collections The Books…
Magic: The Gathering – A Fantasy Lover’s Perspective
Shambralyn Baker
There are lots of games out there for fans of fantasy, both video and table-top. Dungeons & Dragons is probably the most well-known table top fantasy game, but Wizards of…
Fantasy Influences: Ancient Greek Mythology – Part One
When we think of typical fantasy, we tend to imagine a setting influenced by western medieval ideas, complete with knights, horses, longswords and dragons. However, there are much deeper, older…
When The Dust Settles
Aaron Miles
While attending this year’s Nine Worlds convention I went to a session titled “How To Win The 21st Century,” which talked about games as a dominant cultural medium. This and…
Demon Road by Derek Landy
Lucy Hounsom
Derek Landy’s new novel is just as exciting, just as break-neck and just as addictive as his wildly successful Skulduggery Pleasant series. I tore through those books because I loved…
The Romance of Fantasy
Romance isn’t a word that we usually think of as being inseparable from fantasy; some people enjoy love stories with their fantasy and others vehemently object to them. But romance…