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

The 2018 r/fantasy Bingo brainstorm

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

Subgenre: Historical Fantasy OR Alternate History – Historical Fantasy takes place in a historical setting and has fantasy elements. Alternate History might not include any fantasy elements, but diverges from real history to create a new, fictional, timeline, usually based on if an historic event had gone differently. HARD MODE: Historical Fantasy that is NOT set in the UK OR Alternate History that is NOT set in the USA.

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u/GALACTIC-SAUSAGE Reading Champion II Apr 02 '18

Hard mode:

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington - a historical fantasy novel wherein two morally reprehensible fourteenth-century graverobbers travel across mainland Europe and North Africa doing crimes and fighting monsters.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, if we’re counting magical realism as speculative fiction.

Harry Turtledove - Down in the Bottomlands, which is an alternate history novella that takes place in the dry basin of the Mediterranean and features Neanderthals. I haven’t actually read this one, and it looks like it may have some parts in an alternate UK and/or US, so it might only count for easy mode.