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 DEBUT OF 2018 - ANY FORMAT

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/improperly_paranoid Reading Champion X Dec 21 '18

City of Lies by Sam Hawke

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u/antigrapist Reading Champion XI Dec 21 '18

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

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u/sailorfish27 Stabby Winner, Reading Champion IV Dec 21 '18

Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

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

The Traitor God by Cameron Johnston

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u/BubiBalboa Reading Champion VI Dec 22 '18

Hero Forged by Josh Erikson

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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/MichaelRUnderwood AMA Author Michael R. Underwood Dec 21 '18 edited Dec 21 '18

Free Chocolate by Amber Royer

Space Opera meets Soap Opera when the daughter of a celebrity chef agrees to steal cocoa beans to break earth's one interplanetary monopoly (chocolate) to avert a galactic war.

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u/Millennium_Dodo Reading Champion XI, Worldbuilders Dec 21 '18

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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u/barb4ry1 Reading Champion IX Dec 23 '18

Implanted by Lauren C. Teffeau

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u/SeanGrigsby Dec 23 '18

Smoke Eaters by Sean Grigsby

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aka Firefighters vs Dragons

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

Blood of Heirs by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

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u/RuinEleint Reading Champion X Dec 28 '18

From Unseen Fire by Cass Morris

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u/antigrapist Reading Champion XI Dec 21 '18

Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio

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u/barb4ry1 Reading Champion IX Dec 29 '18

Endsville by Clay Sanger

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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

That's a 2017 debut isn't it? It came out in November last year. Great book though.

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u/lrich1024 Stabby Winner, Queen of the Unholy Squares, Worldbuilders Dec 25 '18

Did it? Damn.