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November 20, 2014
Winner of the May 2014 Writing Contest: Portal Fantasy
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main site at a rate of one a week. Today we will be looking at the winner from our May 2014 contest. In May we had […]
November 19, 2014
Jay Kristoff Interview
Hey all you Factioners! I had the amazing opportunity to talk to Jay Kristoff about the finale for his Japanese steampunk series The Lotus War. If you haven’t heard about these books yet you should do yourself a favor and pick up Stormdancer. There are plenty of mythic creatures, civil unrest, and a strong female […]
Fantasy-Faction Anthology: Order the Paperback (UK, US & Canada!)
It is hard to believe that the Fantasy-Faction Anthology that we worked so hard on for almost three years is now out there and being read by Fantasy fans around the world. The following are unsolicited reviews we’ve picked up from readers who have already enjoyed their copy: “I don’t usually read short stories, but […]
The End of ‘Requires Hate’ (a.k.a. Benjanun Sriduangkaew)
A few weeks ago the vast majority of authors, publishers and bloggers punched the air when Requires Hate was finally outted – shockingly – as author, Benjanun Sriduangkaew.For those unaware of who Requires Hate was or what she got up to in her spare time, here’s a good summary: Benjanun Sriduangkaew is a celebrated up-and-coming […]
The End of ‘Requires Hate’ (a.k.a.Benjamin Sriduangkaew)…
A few weeks ago the vast majority of authors, publishers and bloggers punched the air when Requires Hate was finally outted – shockingly – as author, Benjamin Sriduangkaew. For those unaware of who Requires Hate was or what she got up to in her spare time, here’s a good summary: Benjanun Sriduangkaew is a celebrated up-and-coming […]
November 18, 2014
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
Will Everett has spent a long time wishing adventure would find him, but when it does it’s not quite what he expects. In one eventful day he meets the rail baron Cornelius Van Horne, drives the final golden spike into the first coast-to-coast railway in Canada, witnesses the attempted robbery of the same rail spike, […]
November 17, 2014
Fan Favourite, Wesley Chu, offered nice new deal by Angry Robot Books
In news that is good for a number of reasons, Angry Robot Books has announced that award winning author, Wesley Chu, has been offered a rather hefty new six figure deal. Oh, you want to know why I said ‘a number of reasons’? OK. Well, the first and primary reason is that we here at Fantasy-Faction […]
November 16, 2014
Fantasy at the Fair
Over at the Fantasy-Faction Book Club we’ve recently finished our October read: Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury. This is a story about two boys and one father who find themselves facing an evil carnival. Reactions to the book were mixed, but there was one thing everyone seemed to agree on – the […]
November 15, 2014
London Comic Con – Review
The dark water below promised a painful death should the cable snap. The gentleman making faces at us during the five minute cable car ride from one side of the river to the other was only the beginning. I turned up to the usual manic rush of the convention crowd rushing around me; cosplayers roleplaying […]
November 14, 2014
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
If you’ve come into contact with any of David Mitchell’s work before, you’ll be well-acquainted with the sort of genre-switching, time-slipping, scene-shifting fiction that the author is best known for. A film adaptation by the Wachowski siblings in 2012 brought his lauded tapestry of souls, Cloud Atlas, to a wider audience. 2014 heralds the debut […]
