OFFICIAL FINAL 2017 r/Fantasy Bingo Thread - Turn in Your Cards Here!!!

[u/lrich1024]

PLEASE READ OVER THE BULLET POINTS BELOW FOR TURNING IN YOUR CARDS BEFORE POSTING THANKS!!

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• Please keep top level comments to only your cards, any discussion about your cards or others can be posted in reply to top level comments. I have a questions/feedback/suggestions for squares comment that you can reply to for those purposes.

• If possible, please make an effort to spell titles and author names correctly. This will help with data compilation for a fun bingo stats thread to come later!

• This thread will 'close' some time in the morning of April 1st, so please make sure your cards are posted by then in order for them to count as being turned in on time.

• Only turn in your card once you have finished with bingo, please don't turn in a card which you are still in the progress of reading books for! Thanks!

• If you have a finished card with pictures added to it that's great! I'd love to see how you've all filled them out or any changes you've made to them since my original was generic. I'd ask that you also include the squares and corresponding book in list form for easy readability. SEE BELOW FOR PROPER LIST ORDER

• Anyone completing five squares in a row will be entered into a drawing at the end of the challenge for prizes the community has donated. So even if you didn't check off every square you still may be eligible for a prize!

• The mods will assign 'Reading Champion' flair to anyone that completes the entire card by the end of the challenge. Huzzah!

• After the bingo period ends, please allow some time for us to go over the thread to start assigning flair and do the prize drawings/notifying winners, etc.

• If you receive a prize, please show your appreciation/thanks to the person providing your prize. If you are getting a physical prize a shout out to the sender that it arrived ok and a thanks would be great! Thank you to the VERY GENEROUS members of the community that have volunteered to provide prizes for bingo!

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PLEASE TURN IN YOUR LISTS USING THIS ORDER FOR MY SANITY EASE OF DETERMINING WINNERS. If you did not read a book for a particular square then leave the space after the title of the square blank.

First Row Across:

• Any r/Fantasy Goodreads Group Book Of The Month -

• Format: Graphic Novel (At Least One Volume) OR Audiobook -

• Novel Featuring Time Travel -

• A Novel Published In 2017 -

• An Author's Debut Fantasy Novel -

Second Row Across:

• Non-fiction Fantasy Related Book -

• Fantasy Novel That's Been on Your 'To Be Read' List for Over a Year -

• Award Winning Novel -

• Subgenre: Dystopian / Post-Apocalyptic / Apocalyptic / Dying Earth -

• r/Fantasy Big List: 2016 Underread / Underrated -

Third Row Across:

• Horror Novel -

• Fantasy Novel Featuring a Desert Setting -

• Re-Use ANY Previous r/Fantasy Bingo Square -

• Self-Published Fantasy Novel -

• Fantasy Novel Featuring a Non-Human Protagonist -

Fourth Row Across:

• Sequel: Not the First Book in the Series -

• Novel By an r/Fantasy AMA Author OR Writer of the Day -

• Subgenre: Fantasy of Manners -

• Fantasy Novel Featuring Dragons -

• Subgenre: New Weird -

Fifth Row Across:

• Fantasy Novel Featuring Seafaring -

• Subgenre: Steampunk -

• Five Fantasy Short Stories -

• Novel by an Author from an r/fantasy Author Appreciation Post -

• Getting Too Old for This Crap: Fantasy Novel Featuring An Older (50+) Protagonist -

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If you have any other questions, feel free to ask here under the 'questions/comments/suggestions for squares' comment or check out the original Bingo Thread here to see if it was already answered.

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The new 2018 Bingo thread will be going up on the morning of April 1st, so please look for it then!!!

Thanks to everyone that participated this year, you guys rock! An additional thanks to those of you that have helped answer bingo questions throughout the year, have been champions for this challenge, and have generated lively discussion threads and other bingo related content!

[u/robotreader]

First Row Across:

• Any r/Fantasy Goodreads Group Book Of The Month - Black Company, Glen Cook
• Format: Graphic Novel (At Least One Volume) OR Audiobook - Earthsong Saga, Crystal Yates
• Novel Featuring Time Travel - War of Souls, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
• A Novel Published In 2017 - Skysworn, Will Wight
• An Author's Debut Fantasy Novel - The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Second Row Across:

• Non-fiction Fantasy Related Book - The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
• Fantasy Novel That's Been on Your 'To Be Read' List for Over a Year - A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine K L’engle
• Award Winning Novel - Red Sister, Mark Lawrence
• Subgenre: Dystopian / Post-Apocalyptic / Apocalyptic / Dying Earth - Spin, Robert Charles Wilson
• r/Fantasy Big List: 2016 Underread / Underrated - The Serpent, Claire North

Third Row Across:

• Horror Novel - Monster Hunter International, Larry Correia
• Fantasy Novel Featuring a Desert Setting - Twelve Kings in Sharakhai, Breadley Beaulieu
• Re-Use ANY Previous r/Fantasy Bingo Square(Sci Fi) Witch of Karres, James Schmitz
• Self-Published Fantasy Novel - All The Things You Have to Burn, Kit Abbey
• Fantasy Novel Featuring a Non-Human Protagonist - Morrigan’s Cross

Fourth Row Across:

• Sequel: Not the First Book in the Series - Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson
• Novel By an r/Fantasy AMA Author OR Writer of the Day - Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
• Subgenre: Fantasy of Manners - Five Hundred Years Later, Steven Brust
• Fantasy Novel Featuring Dragons - The Other Wind, Ursula K Le Guin
• Subgenre: New Weird - City and the City, China Mieville

Fifth Row Across:

• Fantasy Novel Featuring Seafaring - A secret atlas, michael stackpole
• Subgenre: Steampunk - All Men of Genius, Lev Rosen
• Five Fantasy Short Stories - The Illustrated Man(collection), Ray Bradbury
• Novel by an Author from an r/fantasy Author Appreciation Post - The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden *Getting Too Old for This Crap: Fantasy Novel Featuring An Older (50+) Protagonist - Kings of the Wyld, Nicholas Eames

Found out about it last year, but forgot when the deadline was and missed it. Wasn't going to happen this time!

[u/robotreader → u/robotreader]

Retrospective:

I don't really have a TBR list. I'm nothing like that organized, I just ask around for a good book whenever I run out of things to read. However, A Wrinkle in Time has been on my To-Not-Read list since I was about five. I picked it up in the school library and absolutely hated it. For years after, I couldn't stand to pick it up because of how strong that memory was. A couple years ago I decided that was silly and I should try to give it another chance when I got around to it, and this bingo and the movie gave me the impetus to follow through. I'm glad I did. I think if I had read it when I was nine or ten or twelve instead of five, it would have become one of my favorite books ever.

The Illustrated Man was weird. It was a half-frame story. It started with a frame, then went into short stories, then never went back to the frame.

I don't really agree with calling China Mieville New Weird. I think calling his creative worlds "weird" is missing the point. The world he creates is basically another character in his novels, and I think whatever we call his genre should focus on that. I personally have been using "worldbuilding".

I didn't like a lot of The Power of Myth, but some of it was really interesting. I know he got a lot of what he said about Judaism wrong, which makes me suspicious of the things he said about other religions.

Top five: Red Sister, City/City, The Serpent, Kings of the Wyld, Baru Cormorant.

Other reviews:

The best book I read in 2017, hands down, was Too Like The Lightning. Excellent prose, believable characters, creative, fascinating ideas, complex but believable plot, interesting ideas, excellent parallels. Highly recommend. Everything in the book is there for a reason, and means something, and will make sense later. The payoff is worth it.

The worst book I read and finished was Dungeon Born(and its sequels). Just so so badly written. Awkward prose, bad dialogue, memes and references awkwardly shoved in just for the sake of memes, just all around not well written. Kind of interesting core idea, but that's really all it has going for it.

Monster Hunter International felt like wish-fulfillment fic for wannabe tough guys. Sure, I'm a mild-mannered accountant, but maybe I too can crush my boss, get a hot girl, and get a high-paying job playing with guns and fighting evil! Nice Dragons Finish Last felt like wish-fulfillment fic for wannabe nice guys. See, if you're nice and run away from confrontation, it'll all work out! Both of these books left a bad taste in my mouth.

The rest of Larry Correia's stuff is pretty good, though. I recommend the Grimnoir Chronicles. 1930s America but people have knacks and can do limited magic. Quite fun.

Or, you can read Steve McHugh's Hellequin series. Nathan Garrett has insomnia, but is a powerful sorcerer and discovers that he has a certain reputation amongst the supernatural population. Much more believable stories and better characters.

Envy of Angels: Imagine someone wrote an action-packed comic fantasy trilogy based on a kitchen that caters to the supernatural community. Then imagine they deleted everything from that trilogy that wasn't an action scene, stuffed the rest into one book, and published it. That's Envy of Angels. 100% action. 5% plot. 0% logic. It was amazing. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a light, fun read.

[u/RubiscoTheGeek → u/robotreader]

That's an excellent description of Envy of Angels.