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June 7, 2014
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
I feel like I have a thing for crews. In my first review here I praised the quirky scoundrels that took centre stage in Patrick Weeke’s The Palace Job and, after a brief stint in Earthsea, I’m back with another review involving another gang of less-than-reputable thieves. No, these are not the beloved crews of […]
Peter V. Brett’s Latest Bulgarian Cover
We were lucky enough to run the cover reveal of Peter V. Brett’s The Daylight War a few years back and that was a phenomenal cover. To be honest, I didn’t think the artists version of Inevera could be beaten at the time, but this recently released cover from Peat’s Bulgarian publisher – Colibri – […]
British Fantasy Society Award Nominees and a THANK YOU!
So, something incredible happened AGAIN yesterday. For the second year in a row Fantasy-Faction has been nominated for the British Fantasy Society Award in the category of Non-Fiction! For those unfamiliar with the British Fantasy Society’s awards, votes in various categories are taken from BFS members and those who attended or are signed up for […]
June 6, 2014
Guy Adams Interview
Last month it was my pleasure to read and review The Good, the Bad and the Infernal by Guy Adams. Guy was a new author to me, but he’s been around awhile and is incredibly prolific, writing for comics and audio as well as his novels. Guy very kindly took time from his hectic schedule […]
June 5, 2014
Trees in Fantasy – Part One: Trees as Symbols
Magic in fantasy, myth and legend usually occurs as a natural phenomenon, with its own place in the world of the story outside of what is created by mankind and civilisation. The connection between magic and nature has been a common theme in fantastical tales since the earliest days of storytelling. Trees, both individually and […]
June 4, 2014
Fantasy Book Club – June 2014: King Rat by China Miéville
For June, our members voted to read King Rat by China Miéville. Something is stirring in London’s dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond’s father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul’s prison cell and leads him […]
OH NO! George R.R. Martin’s Editors hint at 8 ASoI&F Books…
No one can accuse George R.R. Martin for rushing his work. And, honestly, why would he? Over the 17 years it has taken the author to put out the first 5 books in the A Song of Ice & Fire series he has sold millions and millions of copies (some sources quote over 24,000,000 books […]
‘Fighting Fantasy’ Festival & ‘You Are The Hero’ Launch: 7th September 2014
Sunday 7 September 2014 will see the first dedicated Fighting Fantasy convention take place at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Ealing, West London. Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, co-creators of the publishing and gaming phenomenon that is Fighting Fantasy, will be Special Guests of Honour at the event, where they will be joined by legendary fantasy artists Russ Nicholson, […]
June 3, 2014
Minecraft: Mobs, Mods and Mines – How is this Fantasy?
Spoiler Alert! (I bet you didn’t even think this game had one.) When you finish Minecraft…What, you can’t finish Minecraft? Are you currently holding aloft your giant rubber pick-axes and announcing how Minecraft is an open-world, creative, survival simulator and has no definitive ending? Well, allow me to be the barer of strange news. For those […]
June 2, 2014
Is It Time To Rethink Your Bio?
“Jonny Author has been writing since he was a boy. His deep love of the elven language together with a slightly unnerving interest in all things undead saw his High School vote him ‘most likely to become a serial killer’. When not writing, Jonny spends his days practising taxidermy. Jonny likes cats and children. His […]
