Holiday Microfiction: “Scientific Romances” by Richard Marpole
Jennie Ivins
Happy December everyone! It’s been a long year, but we finally made it to the end of 2020! To celebrate the holiday season the staff at Fantasy-Faction have prepared a…
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Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
L. A. Young
The 21st Century has seen a slew of diverse authors writing and releasing stories that have expanded the speculative fiction canon. Not only have these authors written stories for readers…
SFF Books by Authors of Color: An Incomplete List of Suggestions
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
People who know me know I love making book lists. And here is one full of fantasy and science fiction authors of color! When we started lockdown here in Germany,…
Recommendations for SFF Authors of Various Identities
Today’s society claims to be “woke” when it comes to the need for diversity, except we all know that isn’t true. The prejudice and bigotry presented on the news and…
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…
Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
What if space travel, other planets and prestigious interstellar universities in neighboring galaxies existed within our lifetime? If everything related to space travel and outer space was an everyday practice,…
Dark River by Rym Kechacha
Jonathan Thornton
It’s hard not to feel that the road is a kind of scar across the land, and the forest is like the new pink tissue forming beneath the old wound,…
2019’s Best New Genre TV Shows
Rakib Ahmad Khan
I still remember my childhood, when I wasn’t much interested in TV shows due to their being a pointed lack of sci-fi and fantasy adaptations. But these days not a…
Firefly Original Graphic Novel: The Sting by Delilah S. Dawson
If you don’t know anything about me, one thing you should know is that I am a big damn Firefly fan. I just got a Firefly cookbook for my birthday—which…
G. R. Matthews Interview – Six Kingdoms
S. H. Paulus
G. R. Matthews is a self-published writer with eleven books under his belt. He is also head mod on the Fantasy-Faction Facebook Group and the official Bureau Chief of Fantasy-Faction…
Talk Like A Man by Nisi Shawl
“She would have to do something. Something else besides living. Something more.” PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series, edited by Terry Bisson, is part of the radical indie press’s politically engaged…
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Have you heard of Becky Chambers? If you’re a regular reader of Fantasy-Faction, then perhaps you remember an article about her back in August 2018. Jessica Juby reviewed Record of…