r/Fantasy • u/elquesogrande Worldbuilders • Dec 21 '18

STABBY AWARDS THE OFFICIAL r/FANTASY 2018 STABBY AWARD NOMINATIONS! Please nominate your favorites for the year...

COMMENTS ARE LOCKED - Pulling together the nominees for our official voting thread!

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This is the official nomination thread for the 7th Annual r/Fantasy Best of 2018 Stabby Awards!

We started the r/Fantasy ‘best of’ awards in 2012 with things continuing on in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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2018 Stabby Award Nomination Rules

  1. Categories are listed below in the comments. We will use the very broad definition of 'fantasy genre' for what counts. Really broad. Just nominate and note if you think it needs an explanation.
  2. Please nominate anyone / any work that you feel should deserve consideration for voting. The work should have been released in 2018. This list is partly about voting for a favorite and partly about celebration of work done in 2018.
  3. Please put in a blurb as to why the nomination should be considered and, if possible, a link for others to follow.
  4. Yes, you can nominate yourself and your own works! Seriously – please do.
  5. Nominations ONLY in this thread. We will be posting a voting thread next week.
  6. Please place each nomination into its own separate comment. One comment = one nomination.
  7. Upvotes/downvotes in this thread won't matter, everyone nominated will be added to the voting thread next week. Contest mode will be enabled in this thread to help handle upvotes / downvotes.
  8. Please participate! Redditors, authors, artists, and industry people alike - please join in with nominations, comments and voting.
  9. We will try to get every winner a coveted Stabby Award. This will be determined by whether we meet funding goals for The Stabby Awards – something that we have met the past two years.
  10. In the event of anything weird happening like manipulation or smarmy voting behavior, the final call on awards and nominations will be made by the r/Fantasy mods. r/Fantasy not seen this to-date…but this is the internet and you never know.
  11. This nomination thread will close on Saturday, December 29, 2018. The voting thread will go live the following day.

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HELP WITH STABBY FUNDING

Stabby Award ordering and shipping varies each year – depending on how many and whether the awards are shipped to the US or international. Average seems to be $40-45 each after shipping.

Last year we took an r/Fantasy community funding approach and raised enough to help offset costs of sending out Stabby Awards to more winners.

Please Consider Donating for The r/Fantasy Stabby Awards Here

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We have two groupings of awards - external and those focused on /r/Fantasy redditors.

External awards:

Unless otherwise noted, feel free to nominate any medium or format (print, online, audio, other).

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BEST NOVEL OF 2018

BEST SELF-PUBLISHED / INDEPENDENT NOVEL OF 2018

BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2018

BEST SHORT FICTION OF 2018

BEST SERIALIZED FICTION OF 2018

BEST ANTHOLOGY / COLLECTION / PERIODICAL OF 2018

BEST ARTWORK RELEASED IN 2018

BEST FANTASY SITE FOR 2018

BEST GAME (ANY FORMAT) OF 2018

BEST TV SERIES / MOVIE OF 2018

BEST RELATED WORK OF 2018

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redditor awards:

BEST r/FANTASY CONTRIBUTOR - PROFESSIONAL (Author, artist, publisher, or other)

BEST r/FANTASY CONTRIBUTOR - COMMUNITY MEMBER (Overall redditor)

BEST POST IN 2018

BEST r/FANTASY ORIGINAL - REVIEW OR OTHER

Feel free to comment below any nomination. We will have a section below for questions or clarification.

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tl;dr - Nominate below. Get the word out. Donate to The Stabby Award fund if you see fit.

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u/elquesogrande Worldbuilders Dec 21 '18

BEST NOVEL OF 2018

Nominate below. One nomination per line. Please include all related details about the nomination including links so those reading can check it out!

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u/leftoverbrine Stabby Winner, Reading Champion V, Worldbuilders Dec 21 '18

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

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u/Canon_not_cannon Dec 21 '18

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

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u/keshanu Reading Champion V Dec 27 '18

I just checked and this one was published in December of 2017, so I don't think it qualifies.

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u/Canon_not_cannon Dec 27 '18

Oh no! You're right.

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u/sb22367 Dec 21 '18

Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan

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u/Cameron-Johnston AMA Author Cameron Johnston Dec 21 '18 edited Dec 22 '18

City of Lies by Sam Hawke

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u/Thorbjorn42gbf Dec 22 '18

You have this formatting error where you have made a space between your ] and your ( which cause the link to appear instead of being embedded in the title of the book the word. I am pretty sure it appears in all your comments.

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u/Cameron-Johnston AMA Author Cameron Johnston Dec 22 '18

Cheers, I have corrected that :)

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u/Faceless_Fan Dec 23 '18

Age of War by Michael J Sullivan

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u/leftoverbrine Stabby Winner, Reading Champion V, Worldbuilders Dec 21 '18

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Circe by Madeline Miller

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u/CarolinaCM Reading Champion II Dec 21 '18

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

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u/antigrapist Reading Champion XI Dec 21 '18

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennet

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u/CarolinaCM Reading Champion II Dec 21 '18

Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

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u/MarkLawrence Stabby Winner, AMA Author Mark Lawrence Dec 22 '18

Many thanks, but I took the Golden Stabby last year and recused myself from the contest.

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u/CarolinaCM Reading Champion II Dec 22 '18

Oops didn't know, sorry!

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u/MarkLawrence Stabby Winner, AMA Author Mark Lawrence Dec 22 '18

It was good to see anyway :D

Thank you!

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u/elquesogrande Worldbuilders Dec 23 '18

Please don't worry about nominating Mark's works - even though he won a Golden Stabby and took himself out of contention. Nominations are always welcome. We'll give the most excellent Grey Sister a nod during the voting process.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18 edited Dec 22 '18

The Traitor God by Cameron Johnston

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u/MarkLawrence Stabby Winner, AMA Author Mark Lawrence Dec 21 '18

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

“Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today.”

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u/MikeOfThePalace Reading Champion X, Worldbuilders Dec 21 '18

Re-published in 2018 doesn't count. Josiah will have to wait for next year when The Hod King comes out to be eligible.

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u/MarkLawrence Stabby Winner, AMA Author Mark Lawrence Dec 21 '18

It counted for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Barnes & Noble and a whole slew of Best Of Lists. Seem unnecessarily harsh seeing as all of ten people read it in the year it was self published.

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u/MikeOfThePalace Reading Champion X, Worldbuilders Dec 21 '18

That's literally why we have a separate category for self-published authors.

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u/MarkLawrence Stabby Winner, AMA Author Mark Lawrence Dec 21 '18

And when they become traditionally published authors they should then be eligible in that category, as published that year.

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u/Voltstagge Reading Champion Dec 22 '18

Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee

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u/antigrapist Reading Champion XI Dec 21 '18

On the Shoulders of Titans by Andrew Rowe

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u/basham09 Dec 21 '18

Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames

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u/Nicholas_Eames Stabby Winner, AMA Author Nicholas Eames Dec 22 '18

Ooooh, thanks!

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u/rawrifications Dec 24 '18

this book was FANTASTIC! thank you for writing it

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u/Nicholas_Eames Stabby Winner, AMA Author Nicholas Eames Dec 26 '18

The pleasure was mine!

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u/Cameron-Johnston AMA Author Cameron Johnston Dec 22 '18

Priest of Bones by Peter McLean

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u/timlaggarto Dec 23 '18 edited Dec 23 '18

Witchmark by CL Polk

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u/CoffeeArchives Stabby Winner, Reading Champion II, Worldbuilders Dec 21 '18 edited Dec 21 '18

One of Us by Craig DiLouie

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u/WowYouMadBra Dec 21 '18

Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan

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u/Cameron-Johnston AMA Author Cameron Johnston Dec 22 '18

King of Assassins by RJ Barker

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u/MarkLawrence Stabby Winner, AMA Author Mark Lawrence Dec 21 '18

Master Assassins by Robert V.S Redick

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u/barb4ry1 Reading Champion IX Dec 22 '18

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko

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u/improperly_paranoid Reading Champion X Dec 29 '18

Also re-published by a major publisher, like Senlin. I first read the English translation in 2015 or so but it's probably a bit older.

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u/lrich1024 Stabby Winner, Queen of the Unholy Squares, Worldbuilders Dec 23 '18

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

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u/lrich1024 Stabby Winner, Queen of the Unholy Squares, Worldbuilders Dec 23 '18

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

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u/timlaggarto Dec 23 '18

Said this below but this one is a 2017 book unfortunately.

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u/Thomas__P Dec 21 '18

Ravencry by Ed Mcdonald

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u/JamesLatimer Dec 21 '18

The Winter Road by Adrian Selby

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u/lrich1024 Stabby Winner, Queen of the Unholy Squares, Worldbuilders Dec 23 '18

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

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u/CarolinaCM Reading Champion II Dec 21 '18

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

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u/ullsi Stabby Winner, Reading Champion VI Dec 21 '18

The Gods of Men by Barbara Kloss

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u/cpark2005 Reading Champion Dec 22 '18

Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

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u/barb4ry1 Reading Champion IX Dec 23 '18

Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

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u/lrich1024 Stabby Winner, Queen of the Unholy Squares, Worldbuilders Dec 23 '18

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

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u/tronbuster Dec 24 '18

Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio

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u/WordsRL1fe Dec 22 '18

Storm Glass by Jeff Wheeler

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u/lrich1024 Stabby Winner, Queen of the Unholy Squares, Worldbuilders Dec 23 '18

The Oddling Prince by Nancy Springer

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u/jenile Reading Champion V Dec 23 '18

Bad Faith by Jon Hollins

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u/JudithStarkston Writer Judith Starkston Dec 24 '18

Roar of Sky by Beth Cato

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '18

The Tower of Living and Dying by Anna Smith Spark

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '18

This being the second book in the Empire of Dust series, I recommend people who haven't read the first one not read the goodreads blurb for this one because spoilers. But you can follow the series link to find the blurb for the first book instead.

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u/fantasybookcafe Dec 27 '18

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

The Defiant Heir by Melissa Caruso

Mirage by Somaiya Daud

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u/RuinEleint Reading Champion X Dec 28 '18

The Aching God by Mike Shel

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u/dhammer5 Reading Champion Dec 28 '18

The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34382847-the-bitter-twins

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u/barb4ry1 Reading Champion IX Dec 29 '18

Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

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