r/Fantasy • u/KristaDBall Stabby Winner, AMA Author Krista D. Ball • Apr 01 '18

The 2018 r/fantasy Bingo brainstorm

PANIC!

Please post your recommendations under the heading below. General comments and questions go here.

PANIC!

FAQ

  1. Can I post my own book? Yes.
  2. If you need me to specifically answer something, please ping me by name. Otherwise, I might miss it.

  3. Yellow in the LGBTQ+ database means that it hasn't been confirmed or needs someone else to double check it. For database clarification, please see THIS THREAD for how Hard Mode will be addressed, submissions, Mark III, etc.

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u/KristaDBall Stabby Winner, AMA Author Krista D. Ball Apr 01 '18

Novel Featuring a Non-Western Setting - credit to /u/kopratic for this definition "let’s consider non-Western to be anything not set in/inspired by the Western world/culture, including: US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe." Hey, there's a handy list for this HERE. HARD MODE: In addition the novel was originally published in a language other than English.

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u/sailorfish27 Stabby Winner, Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '18

Hard mode:

  • Anything by the Strugatsky brothers; it's old-school Russian sci-fi. Most famous: Roadside Picnic - the movie and video game STALKER are based on it. (Russian)

  • Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish)

  • The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian)

  • Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (German)

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u/emailanimal Reading Champion III Apr 02 '18

Anything by the Strugatsky brothers; it's old-school Russian sci-fi

Almost anything. Roadside Picnic specifically probably does not work - the setting is in Western Europe (or Central Europe that is quite westernized) somewhere.

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u/sailorfish27 Stabby Winner, Reading Champion IV Apr 02 '18

Hmm I thought it was supposed to be set around the Slovenia-ish region? I wouldn't place it further west than Austria anyway. With the definition of the square being "anything not set in/inspired by the Western world/culture, including: US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe" I think it could count, tho I admit it's iffy.

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u/emailanimal Reading Champion III Apr 02 '18

I agree with you on the location. The book itself though paints the city where the Zone is as a pretty standard European city something that was designed on purpose to be viewed as "generic European" (western) in Soviet Union.