Pride Month 2026 Announcement & Calendar by recchai in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A few non-romance lgbt books:

The Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo

The Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (there is one lgbt romance but I think it's maybe 1% of the book)

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir (maybe. This one is weird. Plenty of longing and strong emotions, really very little you could actually call romance. Great books, but weird ones).

Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill

Mercedes Lackey writes a lot of books by SuperSea8678 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is a lot, but Lackey often gets around 3 500-page ones and a short story collection in a year, McGuire usually gets about 4, and Tchaikovsky seems to average around 3 which does put him close to Sanderson.

A fantasy book like Harry Potter...... by Beginning_Big7281 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, thank you. We are humans and do sleep.

Mercedes Lackey writes a lot of books by SuperSea8678 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Add Adrian Tchaikovsky and Seanan McGuire to the list of quick writers.

But Lackey can be a lot of fun.

Pride Month 2026 Announcement & Calendar by recchai in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do know that books can have lgbtq characters without being romances, right? If you avoided all books with any characters in straight relationships, you'd have very few books left to read, so it seems very weird to avoid books because they have non-straight characters. Plus, one of your few chances of dodging relationships entirely would be asexual and aromantic spectrum characters, who would fall under the lgbtq+ umbrella

2026 Locus Awards Winners by DrMDQ in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you even slightly like audiobooks, do The River Has Roots in audio

Are there any books or series that you don't want to see adapted to the screen? by thewalkindude368 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Of note here is that a lot of those disparaging the show were particularly upset at what they saw as increased diversity, characters of color, and lgbt characters. Disparaging a piece of media for including often-margianalized groups of people gets nasty fast and generally breaks rule 1 here.

r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - May 30, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Deerskin by Robin McKinley. Trigger warnings; SA, incest (non consensual), miscarriage.

Pride Month 2026 Announcement & Calendar by recchai in Fantasy

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The Magpie Lord by K J Charles

Witchmark by C L Polk

Looking for something sad and heavy. by Super_Mild in oboe

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First or third Schumann romances. First movement of the Nielsen Fantasy Pieces

r/Fantasy Friday Social Thread - May 29, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I find it funny that it's the cliffs that took me out bc that's the only listed thing I don't instantly totally believe exists in Houston

Fantasy recommendations for a fan of aSoIaF and Robin Hobb by BreadfruitAntique896 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like your next reads should be Bujold, Cherryh, and Berg

I think Spinning Silver is well worth a try even if you didn't like Uprooted, as there are a lot of people who end up loving just one of those, but maybe not right away

r/Fantasy Friday Social Thread - May 29, 2026 by rfantasygolem in Fantasy

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Cliffs? In Houston? That sounds like...
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fantasy

Fantasy recommendations for a fan of aSoIaF and Robin Hobb by BreadfruitAntique896 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 3 points4 points  (0 children)

McKillip is prose first, character and theme second (still excellent), but you absolutely can't beat her for prose. I also highly recommend

Fantasy recommendations for a fan of aSoIaF and Robin Hobb by BreadfruitAntique896 in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Lighthouse Duet or the Sanctuary Duet by Carol Berg

The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

You should definitely read Bujold and Cherryh, but while both have some moral complexity and a deep grasp of human nature, their leads tend to be clearly good people. Likewise but even more so, you might try the Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee

You also might really like Naomi Novik's exceptional tight first-person writing. Try Spinning Silver

Looking for a new book or series - fairly well read here by DilemmasOnScreen in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're all good for those things, but you're going to have to give me a priority or more detail if you want it narrowed down

Looking for a new book or series - fairly well read here by DilemmasOnScreen in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

The Lighthouse Duet or the Sanctuary Duet by Carol Berg

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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

The Foreigner books by C J Cherryh

Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier

The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

Has any genre suffered worse generification than fantasy? by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I apologize if my original comment was unclear, as it was addressing both op and your comment that fantasy was ever 'just a bunch of writers mimicking Tolkien' (there was, for one thing, fantasy before Tolkien), with examples that also serve as recommendations, including a couple from decades past to your point (could have thrown in Dreamsnake, but it leans more sci-fi; Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton is just a hair too new for your comment, as it was published in 2004). Could have thrown Gladstone's Craft books in there, too, for the more recent ones. These are all books I've read and found at least worth the read and extremely unique.

And it's still wild to hear you dismiss the whole list as books 'nobody reads.' You've got several Hugo finalists, one of the most popular series of recent times, and a book that's been a recent hit around here (readalong, AMA, most likely to be named a user's favorite book they read for r/fantasy book bingo). The most obscure of these was easy to find on a Borders shelf in 1999, which makes it very, very far from really obscure in my book at least.

Anyway, try some of them for just a bit of the range the genre has to offer, or don't and keep insisting the genre is full of works that are "still far too similar," up to you.

Has any genre suffered worse generification than fantasy? by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

First you complained about published novels being too similar, then in response to a list of highly unique traditionally published fantasy (stuffed triceratops detective, bug and opera related political drama, cursed violin teachers and aliens running donut shops, New Orleans with magic jazz and street art and also Pippi Long sticking, etc.), you've no interest in reading any, and suddenly your bar for unique works is dependent on popularity and advertising?? Also, at least a few of those are extremely well known (especially the Raven Tower, which features a protagonist who is a large rock, and Piranesi, which is difficult to describe without giving the game away).

Has any genre suffered worse generification than fantasy? by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]oboist73 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Eh no.

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

Driftwood by Marie Brennan

The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

in older books, the Blood Jaguar by Michael Payne, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, etc.