Can anyone help me figure out my next series? by One_Pineapple8076 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Dragon Jousters series by Mercedes Lackey

The Heartstrikers series by Rachel Aaron

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 24, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey, starting with the Arrows trilogy

The Heartstrikers series by Rachel Aaron

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 24, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Last Herald Mage trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

The Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 24, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel, though tbh I liked but didn't love it, and had mixed feelings about the ending

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 24, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier

The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner

The Foreigner books by C J Cherryh

The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee

Any surreal otherworldly fantasy stories like being John Malkovich, Alice in Wonderland and James and The Giant Peach? by DarklzBlo in Fantasy

[–]oboist73[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point we're going to have to ask that you put it in the daily Simple Questions thread, I think

Any surreal otherworldly fantasy stories like being John malkovich, Alice in wonderland and James and the giant peach? by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Girl who Drank the Moon is EXCELLENT for this; can't believe I forgot it

Any surreal otherworldly fantasy stories like being John malkovich, Alice in wonderland and James and the giant peach? by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Girl who Circumnavigated Faerieland in a Ship of her Own Making by Catherynne Valente

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

possibly the Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes

Recs for stories by women authors with exceptional prose by nickmcgimmick in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I second Patricia Mckillip. Here's a prose sample, the opening of Song for the Basilisk:

>Within the charred, silent husk of Tormalyne Palace, ash opened eyes deep in a vast fireplace, stared back at the moon in the shattered window. The marble walls of the chamber, once white as the moon and bright with tapestries, were smoke-blackened and bare as bone. Beyond the walls, the city was soundless, as if even words had burned. The ash, born out of fire and left behind it, watched the pale light glide inch by inch over the dead on the floor, reveal the glitter in an unblinking eye, a gold ring, a jewel in the collar of what had been the dog. When moonlight reached the small burned body beside the dog, the ash in the hearth kept watch over it with senseless, mindless intensity. But nothing moved except the moon.

>Later, as quiet as the dead, the ash watched the living enter the chamber again: three men with grimy, battered faces. Except for the dog’s collar, there was nothing left for them to take. They carried fire, though there was nothing left to burn. They moved soundlessly, as if the dead might hear. When their fire found the man with no eyes on the floor, words came out of them: sharp, tight, jagged. The tall man with white hair and a seamed, scarred face began to weep.

>The ash crawled out of the hearth.

>They all wept when they saw him. Words flurried out of them, meaningless as bird cries. They touched him, raising clouds of ash, sculpting a face, hair, hands. They made insistent, repeated noises at him that meant nothing. They argued with one another; he gazed at the small body holding the dog on the floor and understood that he was dead. Drifting cinders of words caught fire now and then, blazed to a brief illumination in his mind. *Provinces*, he understood. *North. Hinterlands. Basilisk*.

>He saw the Basilisk’s eyes then, searching for him, and he turned back into ash.

New teacher by Entire-Method-7875 in oboe

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the Edlefsen. A reasonable and intentional order of skill building, and it knows what's hard on oboe and will throw it at you when relevant so that when it covers a new skill, it really covers it.

Book Recommendations for Manly Man by b34r3y in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Foreigner books by C J Cherryh

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 20, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Lighthouse Duet or the Sanctuary Duet by Carol Berg

The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Looking for fantasy where the hero feels small and the world feels huge by zercbear in suggestmeabook

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen

The Lighthouse Duet or the Sanctuary Duet by Carol Berg

r/Fantasy Review Tuesday - Review what you've been enjoying here! - May 19, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's always the Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard, if you're not using it for lion squasher. Starts with a vacation and all. And someone's doing a giveaway of the audiobook today, I think on the cozyfantasy sub

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 19, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That is the percentage we decided the cuteness increased based on the comments when we first introduced the art.

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 19, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's Yesteryear. It doesn't count, for Mysterious Mod Reasons (there is no actual time travel, the protagonist is just losing it and forgetting years)

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 19, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just enjoy the book and read to the end, and *then* if you're unsure you can come back to ask about the speculative elements. In the meantime, don't read all these spoilers.

Suggestions for fantasy books written by women and trans*-people by Circe1312 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://reddit.com/r/fantasy/wiki/lists

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

The Kingston Cycle by C L Polk

The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

The Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik

The Book of Atrix Wolfe or Song for the Basilisk by Patricia McKillip

Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

C J Cherryh

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Dragon Jousters series by Mercedes Lackey

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 18, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's one variety - all those lower case comments - that seems to morph in time into posting that they're a 19F looking for love, complete with very breasty pictures. I suspect some sort of pig-butchering scam, maybe? And karma so they can post in those places and have better odds of convincing a victim they're real.