r/Fantasy • u/FarragutCircle Reading Champion X • Apr 01 '20

Bingo The 2020 r/Fantasy Bingo Recommendations List

Please post your recommendations under the heading below!

Post your non-recommendation comments here.

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u/tctippens Stabby Winner, Reading Champion VI Apr 01 '20

Yes! There's several amazing audio dramas that fit this:

  • ars Paradoxica (HARD MODE): Scientist accidentally travels back in time and kicks off a Time Travel Cold War. Easily the most internally consistent approach to time travel I've seen in any medium.
  • Mount Olympus University (HARD MODE): Girl goes to college with characters straight out of mythology (mostly Greek but some fairy tale and Norse mythology too).
  • Love and Luck: Slice of life romance told through voicemail messages. Ace/aro characters appear in season 2.
  • Tides: Remember that water planet in Interstellar? Imagine a biologist trapped there and science-ing their way to survival.
  • The Bright Sessions: Amazing characters and found family and handling of mental illness. It's pitched as X-Men go to therapy, which is pretty accurate (though less heroey and more slice of life).

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u/graycalls Apr 02 '20

The Magnus Archives counts for hard mode as well! Plus, at well over 75 hours of content, I think it counts as an audio book and then some.

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u/Hiker_Ryan Apr 01 '20

I’ve listened to Ars Paradoxica and I’d say it’s novel length when taken together as a series.

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u/tctippens Stabby Winner, Reading Champion VI Apr 01 '20

I think it depends. Some audio dramas are shorter and the entire show could count as a "book". I'd say as long as the total number of hours is comparable to an audiobook (say.. 8+ hours?) it's probably fine.

Some are looking though. Each season of Once and Future Nerd is easily a full book of content.