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January 30, 2014
The Fantasy Language Problem – Part Two
This is part two of Django Wexler’s guest post on fantasy languages. You can read part one here. (Click or mouseover links for humorous footnotes.) The preceding section is not intended to be an exhaustive list of troublesome terms, but rather to merely convey the scope of the problem. [#11] It should be obvious by […]
Game of Thrones Season 4 – ‘Making of’ Short.
A pretty cool behind the scenes video of Game of Thrones has been posted up on HBO’s Youtube account. The video talks about the huge script created for this season and takes a look at the huge challenges the crew and cast faced filming this season. As you will see in the video, these challenges […]
Brandon Sanderson’s US Book Tour Stops & Dates
Most of us are excited about the release of Brandon Sanderon’s Words of Radiance, which is due out on March 4th 2014. For those who’d like to get a copy signed or simply high-five Brandon for completing the book, Tor have just announced the dates and locations for Sanderson’s Words of Radiance US tour! We’ve posted up the […]
January 29, 2014
Beauty by Sarah Pinborough
Beauty is the retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale; all the elements are here, the impenetrable forest, the cursed princess and the handsome prince. This final story in Sarah Pinborough’s trilogy of fairy tale retellings closes the circle started in Poison, but whilst being the last book released, chronologically Beauty is the first story […]
BSFA Awards: Shortlist Announced
The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) – not to be confused with the British Fantasy Society (BFS) – have today announced their shortlist for the BSFA Awards for works first published in 2013. To come up with the shortlist, the BSFA draw upon nominations from their membership, and in the case of the Best Novel […]
Highbrow Magazine: How Long Will Our Fascination With the Fantasy Genre Last?
I was pretty pleased to see Fantasy-Faction mentioned in ‘Highbrow Magazine’ this month. One of their journalists picked up a quote one of our staff writers, Eric, wrote in a recent article on fantasy’s current position in Hollywood. That said, you do, as with most ‘literary publications’, get the feeling that fantasy is looked down on […]
Words of Radiance, Stormlight Archive 2: Just £6.99
Hey guys, If you act quickly, you can pre-order Brandon Sanderson’s Word’s of Radiance, Book 2 in The Stormlight Archive Series and Fantasy-Faction’s Most Anticipated Novel of 2014, for just £6.99 if you’re in the UK. Here’s the Blurb: From the bestselling author who completed Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series comes a new, […]
January 28, 2014
How To Create A Civilisation
You’ve listened to the pounding hooves of nomadic Dothraki as the Khalasar sweeps across the grass plains, you’ve looked out from the heights of Minas Tirith over the white city of Gondor, and you’ve baulked at the cutthroat world of the Drow. Now you’re going to create your own civilisation, where do you start? This […]
Miles Cameron, author of the Traitor Son Cycle, is a pen name!
Well, those tricksey publishers, Gollancz, have been in touch to let us know they’ve been telling us pokeys for the past year or so… What they’ve told us is that Miles Cameron, author of the Traitor Son Cycle, is a pen name for the critically acclaimed author of historical fiction, Christian Cameron, best-known for his […]
Ghost In The Shell Live Action Remake Not Far Off…
In news that is likely to excite some and terrify many, DreamWorks have just announced that they’ve signed a director up to their live-action remake of Ghost In The Shell; Rupert Sanders (who directed Snow White And The Huntsman). For those who haven’t heard of Ghost In The Shell before, it follows the exploits of […]
