Friends Talking Fantasy Podcast

The Friends discuss how Andrzej Sapkowski's use of folklore, prejudice, and the human condition makes the monsters in the Witcher series.  Spoiler warning for The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski and season 1 of The Witcher Netflix series. To celebrate our one year anniversary, The Friends have hand picked 'classic' episodes to re-release every Friday this summer. We hope you enjoy this re-release e...

#IndieAugust continues! To celebrate, we took to Twitter to get independently published fantasy book recommendations. View the Twitter thread for all of the indie book recommendations: https://twitter.com/TheFTFPodcast1/status/1419307640216121348  

Our read-through of the world of The First Law would not be complete with the short story collection Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie.  This is Part 1 of our Sharp Ends discussion. Short stories discussed in this episode are: 'A Beautiful Bastard', 'Small Kindnesses', 'The Fool Jobs', 'Skipping Town', 'Hell', 'Two’s Company', and 'Wrong Place, Wrong Time'  SPOILER WARNING for: The First Law Trilogy,...

To celebrate our one year anniversary, The Friends have hand picked 'classic' episodes to re-release every Friday this summer. We hope you enjoy this re-release episode.

Beth Tabler (Founder of Before We Go Blog, Site Lead at Grimdark Magazine, SPFBO #7 Judge, and so much more) joins The Friends to discuss the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO).    Learn more about SPFBO: http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-official-self-published-fantasy.html     Follow Beth Tabler Before We Go Blog: https://beforewegoblog.com/about/   Twitter: https://twitter.co...

#IndieAugust is here! To celebrate, we took to Twitter to get independently published fantasy book recommendations.  View the Twitter thread for all of the book recommendations: https://twitter.com/TheFTFPodcast1/status/1419307640216121348  Dylan's review of 'The Trials of the Core' by Michael E. Thies: https://beforewegoblog.com/the-trials-of-the-core-by-michael-e-thies/  

To celebrate our one year anniversary, The Friends have hand picked 'classic' episodes to re-release every Friday this summer. We hope you enjoy this re-release episode.

The Friends ramble on about the rockin' fantasy novel that is Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames. 

To celebrate our one year anniversary, The Friends have hand picked 'classic' episodes to re-release every Friday this summer. We hope you enjoy this re-release episode.

Which Wheel of Time character are you? The Friends take a Wheel of Time personality quiz to find out! We can already hear the dice rattling in our heads...   Take the quiz for yourself: https://www.gotoquiz.com/what_wheel_of_time_character_are_you  

We're not doing this book dirty! Part 2 of our Red Country by Joe Abercrombie book discussion will focus on Dab Sweet, The Ghosts, The Dragon People, The Rebels, and more!   For a conversation focused on Lamb, Shy, Temple, and a certain mercenary leader, check out Part 1 of our Red Country book discussion.   This episode contains spoilers for The First Law Trilogy and all three standalone books in...

We interview Levi Jacobs, author of independently published YA novel 'Daughter of Flood of Fury'. The first half of this interview will be SPOILER FREE. The second half will have spoilers for Daughter of Flood and Fury. Levi Jacobs Website: http://www.levijacobs.com/   Read Daughter of Flood and Fury today!: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P7V51KV?     To celebrate our one year anniversary, T...

The Friends discuss the recently released critically acclaimed sci-fi series 'Artifact Space' along with the author Christian (Miles) Cameron.    Buy Artifact Space: https://www.amazon.com/Artifact-Space-Miles-Cameron-ebook/dp/B08KSX3439     Christian Cameron: Website: https://christiancameronauthor.com/    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Phokion1   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christian_came...

Special guest Sam from The Book In Hand Blog returns to the show to give The Friends fantasy book recommendations. One book will lead to another, and our TBR will continue to grow!  This episode is SPOILER FREE.  Follow Sam: The Book In Hand Blog: https://thebookinhand.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebookinhand_   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebookinhand_/?hl=en  

To celebrate our one year anniversary, The Friends have hand picked 'classic' episodes to re-release every Friday this summer. We hope you enjoy this re-release episode. This episode contains spoilers for Red Sister by Mark Lawrence.

The Friends discuss several of their favorite Fantasy audiobook experiences.   This episode is SPOILER FREE. 

The Friends finish their discussion of The First Law Standalones with Red Country by Joe Abercrombie.    Spoiler warning for The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie as well as all standalone novels in The First Law universe by Joe Abercrombie. 

To celebrate our one year anniversary, The Friends have hand picked 'classic' episodes to re-release every Friday this summer. We hope you enjoy this re-release episode. This episode contains spoilers for The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss.

Guest host Derek from Roger Roger: A Star Wars Podcast fills in for Dylan in this very special Star Wars centric episode where we discuss the fantasy influences in Star Wars.    This episode is SPOILER FREE.   Follow Derek and the Roger Roger podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RogerRogerPod   Roger Roger Podcast: https://www.rogerrogerpod.com/  

In this very special episode we have Family Talking Fantasy! Charles's mother fills in for Dylan to give book recommendations from her years of prolific reading and book club discussion.    This episode is SPOILER FREE.

To celebrate our one year anniversary, The Friends have hand picked 'classic' episodes to re-release every Friday this summer. We hope you enjoy this re-release episode. This episode contains spoilers for The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski. 

The Friends decided to add 'Kings of the Wyld' by Nicholas Eames to their imminent TBR. We hope you enjoy this discussion of why we are looking forward to reading Kings of the Wyld.   This episode is SPOILER FREE.

The Friends dust off their Fantasy Scenario Generator for another exciting episode of 'Who Would Win?' - where The Friends speculate on randomly generated fantasy character matchups. 

To celebrate our one year anniversary, The Friends have hand picked 'classic' episodes to re-release every Friday this summer. We hope you enjoy this re-release episode.   This episode is SPOILER FREE.

The Friends discuss some of their favorite fathers in fantasy. We discuss characters from A Game of Thrones, Saga, and Shadow of the Gods.    This episode is SPOILER FREE.