Tom Pollock Interview
Max Edwards
Tom Pollock’s debut YA urban fantasy novel, The City’s Son, was released in 2012 to much acclaim. With the newest addition to his Skyscraper Throne series due out tomorrow in…
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Is Urban Fantasy The Next Genre Neanderthal?
Eric Christensen
In a recent post on the-toast.com, Ginger Clark, a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., remarked: It is much harder to sell a new urban fantasy series now that it…
Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews
Joie
Absolutely FANTASTIC. That’s all. Now you can go read it for yourselves. What? You need more? Okay fine. It’s round six of Kate and Curran in all their shapeshifting, sarcastic,…
Monthly Short Story Winner: The City
Idlewilder
Every month in the Fantasy-Faction forums we have a themed writing contest. It’s run throughout each month, and voting on the winner takes place across the month thereafter. Anyone can…
The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig
The Blue Blazes was my first exposure to Chuck Wendig’s writing outside of his blog, TerribleMinds. I expected an urban fantasy novel full of hard, broken edges and bloody knuckles.…
Written In Red by Anne Bishop
Being unfamiliar with this author, it was a pleasant surprise to find myself thoroughly impressed with this book. Namid is an earth world dominated by the Others, creatures almost as…
Stray Souls by Kate Griffin
Steff Humm
If you have any doubts about the ethereal nature of urban living then you need to be reading Kate Griffin. The often brilliant Matthew Swift series, starring a formerly dead…
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Victoria Hooper
Lauren Beukes is probably best known for her wonderful Clarke Award winning book Zoo City, an urban fantasy set in Johannesburg. Like Zoo City, The Shining Girls can be loosely…
Cold Days by Jim Butcher
CptNemo
This review contains spoilers for the previous Dresden books. Read with caution if you have yet to read Ghost Story. Cold Days is the latest installment in the bestselling Dresden…
Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman
Hierath
Emma Newman is, in the nicest possible way, crazy. I’ll tell you how crazy she is. She’s spent the last year writing recording and uploading a short story on a…
The Battle of Science and Magic – Part Two: Nostalgia and the New
In the previous article we looked at the idea that science destroys magic through encouraging disbelief, and how this has influenced fantasy stories involving magic, folklore and fairies. The first…
The Battle of Science and Magic – Part One: Particles and Pixie Dust
For a long time we have separated magic and science, drawing a line between fantasy and science fiction, associating magic with the past – usually a pre-industrial society – and…