Fantasy-Faction Milestone
So, initially this started out as a forum private message to a blogger who asked: “How did Fantasy-Faction get so big?” I started typing, but in the end I decided to put it on the main page as I think that ‘you’, yes ‘you’, the person reading this piece right now deserves to know how [...]
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Brandon Sanderson Interview – Transcribed
Some of you would have ‘seen’ this interview before. Until now, this interview had been a video interview that was available for download through Youtube. Incredibly, we had around 10,000 downloads of the three videos in total and I have to say, it kind of scares me (and of course excites me) that so many [...]
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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber
It’s generally accepted that, though there were precursors, the sword and sorcery genre was created in the 1920s and 1930s by Robert E. Howard, with his stories of Conan and Kull. The phrase, however, was never used by Howard; it was coined many years after his death, in 1961, by arguably one of the best [...]
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Frodor’s Travel Guide: The “Bad Economy” Issue
This month’s travel guide is based on Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy. More information on the series can be found at brandonsanderson.com. You can also read Fantasy-Faction’s review of the first Mistborn novel here. Welcome After a long dormancy spent weathering the economy, Frodor’s is back and better than ever! Don’t make that face, we know you [...]
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Windhaven by George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
In recent months I have read The Windsingers by Megan Lindholm (an omnibus edition which collected together the first three novels – Harpy’s Flight, The Windsingers and Limbreth Gate – all published between 1983 – 1984) and reread the original Wizard of Earthsea trilogy by Ursula LeGuin (again an omnibus edition which collected together The [...]
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