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February 4, 2018
Jamie Davis Interview
Today we have the absolute pleasure of interviewing Jamie Davis. Jamie is a nurse, paramedic, podcaster, and author of three series: Extreme Medical Services, Broken Throne, and Accidental Traveller, which explore both urban and epic Fantasy. Jamie, Can you talk a little about your relationship and experience with EMS and nursing as well as non-fiction […]
February 2, 2018
Monthly Short Stories Winner: Water
This month we asked for stories, where water of any kind was a key element. It didn’t matter if it was a stormy sea, a misty lake, a polluted river, a frozen waterfall, a terrible flash flood, or a sentient geyser – water is incredibly diverse and we expected the stories to mirror this. And […]
February 1, 2018
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
“God, it’s time for my dick present,” he laughed nervously. I asked him what he meant, as he handed me the wrapped Christmas present. “I’ve bought you my favourite book.” I was baffled. Why that should make him think I wouldn’t approve of the present, I have no idea. I explained I would much rather […]
January 31, 2018
In Defence of a Zombie-Free Apocalypse – Part One: Vampires, Werewolves, and Ghosts
Zombies are awful. They look disgusting and they smell worse. Their eating habits are appalling. Their conversational skills leave a lot to be desired. People keep trying to explain them through science when they’re clearly beings of magic. (Note how they keep on walking around endlessly even though their metabolism has clearly stopped working and […]
January 30, 2018
James Hunter Interview
Today on Fantasy-Faction we have James Hunter author, former Marine Corps Sergeant, combat veteran, and pirate hunter (seriously). A Colorado native, he is also an active member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), and author of the Yancy Lazarus Series, MudMan, Viridian Gate Online, The Artificer, and War God’s Mantle. And without […]
January 29, 2018
Death’s Mistress by Terry Goodkind
Death’s Mistress is the first book in the Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles series. It is a new series following a character already established in Goodkind’s previous books, the Sword of Truth series. I am unsure the length this series will be but so far there are two books released. Although reading the previous […]
January 28, 2018
Time Travel in Fantasy: More Common Than You’d Think
Many of us associate time travel with science fiction, picturing tinkering scientists, time machines, futuristic societies, wormholes, or space travel. This is in no small part due to the H. G. Wells 1895 classic The Time Machine, which greatly popularised the idea, but also to the development of scientific theories relating to space-time, time dilation […]
January 25, 2018
The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker
We know about Mendoza. We know about Joseph. We even know a bit about Lewis, though not quite as much as the other two. (And that’s all right, fond though I grew of him over the last book.) There is, however, one man we don’t know much about at all. We don’t even know if […]
January 24, 2018
Emily R. King Interview – The Hundredth Queen Series
Yesterday, J. C. Kang reviewed The Hundredth Queen by Emily R. King. Today she was nice enough to stop by and tell us a bit about herself and her work. But first a quick introduction. Emily R. King is a reader of everything and a writer of fantasy. Born in Canada and raised in the […]
January 23, 2018
The Hundredth Queen by Emily R. King
Emily R. King’s debut novel, The Hundredth Queen, had been gathering digital dust in my Kindle library for months, when something inspired me to finally check it out. That something being $1.99 Audible narration. And an empty audiobook queue. Despite the miserly roots of my inspiration, this epic story was well worth it. Set in […]
