Truth and Fear by Peter Higgins
John Cowell
Truth and Fear, book two of Peter Higgins’s Wolfhound Century Trilogy is not one you can just jump into. It is vast, rich, complex, and without the context of events…
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Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
Richard Bray
Half a King isn’t the book that proves Joe Abercrombie’s skill. Those credentials were long established with the First Law trilogy, which turned our expectations on their heads and introduced…
Elements of Fantasy – Frogs
Janie Bill
For a dame seeking a handsome, wealthy husband who has an affluent family, all she needed to do was kiss a lot of frogs. Simple and foolproof. The Brothers Grimm…
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Review
Juan de Dios Dougnac
“We are nothing but dwarfs, standing on the shoulders of giants”, Bernard of Chartres allegedly said, and I’d be hard pressed to find a bigger truth. Whether in fantasy literature,…
Black Feathers & The Book of the Crowman by Joseph D’Lacey
Matt Maenpaa
Our world is collapsing, the planet choked with pollution and strangled by economic hardship. A government agency with dubious intent, known as the Ward, is collecting political dissenters and rebels,…
Fantasy Rings: The Ultimate Power Accessory
Raymond K. Rugg
We all know THE Ring. The One Ring to Rule them all. (And if you don’t, then shame on you.) The Ring is so well-known in popular culture that it…
You’ve Got Your Romance in My Fantasy! – You’ve Got Your Fantasy in My Romance!
Marsha A. Moore
Continuing my series exploring subgenres of fantasy, in this post I’ll compare and contrast—the best I can since this one confuses me—romantic fantasy and fantasy romance. Regardless of how we…
Fantasy Book Club – August 2014: Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
Lisa Taylor
For August, our members voted to read Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan. There are a number of great reviews for this one, including one here on Fantasy-Faction where it…
The State of Fantasy: Videogame News from the Scrying-Glass of E3
Nick Clark
Fantasy has always been a salient feature in the videogame landscape, right down to the essential footprint of guiding an idealised persona through an imagined world. The hallmarks of fantasy…
Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman
Zachary A. Matzo
Am I painting with a wide brush when I say that, for most of us, children’s books are something we read as, well, children? Or to children, maybe? Rarely, if…
Rjurik Davidson Interviews Ben Peek
Rjurik Davidson and Ben Peek
Rjurik Davidson is the author of the novel, Unwrapped Sky, recently released by Tor in the US and UK. A novel that SciFiNow noted “can go toe-to-toe with China Miéville’s…
Rogues edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Charlie Hopkins
G.R.R.M. states in his introduction that’s the “Rogues is not meant to be a fantasy anthology” but I picked it up for the authors that I knew from being a…