Fantasy Book Club – November 2011: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Overlord
Hello Fantasy Fans! This month we will be reading Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (titled Midnight Riot in the US). My name is Peter Grant and until January I…
urban fantasy
Monthly Short Story Winner: Water
Jennie Ivins
Yet another month is behind us and October is officially here. Last month was a great month for writing on Fantasy-Faction. And next month promises to be even better! For…
Shadow Fox by Ashley J. Barnard
Jared Bruin has felt out of place his whole life. In his current home of London, England, he has few friends, and after his adopted American mother dies, no family.…
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Paolo Chikiamco
Child of Fire is the first novel in Harry Connolly’s Twenty Palaces urban fantasy–well, perhaps urban horror would be a more appropriate term–series (three books long so far), featuring ex-convict…
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
I’ve heard A LOT about The Dresden Files and after being told by about ten people over in the Fantasy-Faction forums that I ‘HAD’ to start this series, I finally…
Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis
Stan Markowski is a detective in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Like many normal detectives, he has a partner, drives an unmarked car, and carries a gun. A gun loaded with silver bullets…
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Jo Warne
As the title suggests, this novel is about a young woman (dob. 1976, my age, so yes still young) who was born a witch. One day whilst researching in the…
Sandman Slim: A Novel by Richard Kadrey
Chloe Smith
Vacation season is coming and it’s time to give yourself a break, stretch out by the pool or on the beach, and distract yourself with a relaxing summertime read about…demons,…
Kraken: An Anatomy by China Miéville
They say there are no new stories, just tropes, myths and archetypes that appear over and over again in different guises. This is, perhaps, especially the case in genres such…
The Rise of Urban Fantasy
In 2003, I walked into an obscure little shop, away from the main drag in Parramatta (just west of Sydney). I was attracted to the Buffy display in the window.…
Going Old School: Re-Re-Defining Urban Fantasy
I have a confession: I have not always maintained my current, high-intensity level of fantasy fandom. There was a period (which coincided with several years of full-time school), during which…
Subgenre Bingo – Urban Fantasy
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
After epic fantasy and sword and sorcery (widely considered the staples of the fantasy genre), it is now time to breeze on over to something a little more modern. There…