Angie’s Comments (group member since Dec 15, 2017)

Angie’s comments from the Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy group.

Andrea wrote: "Alright, I was looking through Atlantis themed books and didn't find any that I really wanted to read, as well as be able to find it at the library. Then I remembered I had Lost Horizons (Shangri-l..."

Sounds good. That gives me a bit of wiggle room.

Still tinkering with this.

B1: Genre Blender ~Rivers of London
B2: Dreampunk ~ Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
B3: Published Before 1940 ~ The War of the Worlds
B4: Female Author ~ Mary Poppins or Rogue Protocol or Thornhedge
B5: Features a Vampire ~ Club Dead

I1: Features a Portal/Wormhole ~ Come Tumbling Down
I2: Nonfiction SF/F ~ Doctor Who: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany
I3: Takes Place Underground ~ Homeland or The Tombs of Atuan
I4: Weird West ~ Six-Gun Snow White
I5: Anthology ~ The Draco Tavern or The Illustrated Man

N1: Dark SF/F ~ Hansel and Gretel
N2: Award Winner ~ Redshirts or Thornhedge
N3: FREE ~ TBD
N4: Features a Swordsman ~ Homeland or Snow Crash
N5: LGBTQ Character ~ A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

G1: New-To-You Author ~ Thieftaker
G2: Features a Son ~ William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return
G3: Starts with U ~ Unfallen Dead
G4: Located in Africa ~ A Master of Djinn
G5: Translated from Another Language ~ The Neverending Story

O1: Published in 2025~ Sunrise on the Reaping
O2: Urban Fantasy ~ Moon Called or Small Favor
O3: Lost Civilization ~ Lost Horizon
O4: Alternate Form ~ Doctor Who: Sleepers in the Dust
O5: Complete a Trilogy ~ The Winter of the Witch

Dreampunk would be an excuse for me to read Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, so it's fine with me.

I did find a Decopunk list, though. If we need it at some point.

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

I need to get around to Mary Poppins. I might put it on my list for next year.

Andrea wrote: "Ooh, I like the Old West idea, we haven't done that before and I actually pulled something out on that topic to read next year by chance. I wasn't sure I was actually going to read it but this will..."

Here's a shelf for Weird West, which has some suggestions. This isn't exhaustive, but it's a starting point.

https://www.goodreads.com/genres/weir...

I wound up taking 2024 year off due to chronic health problems, so I don't know if I have a right to make suggestions. But I am planning to participate this coming year, so I throw a few out there...

Anything that blends the 1800s or the Old West with sci-fi/fantasy elements. Not sure how you'd want to phrase that.

Media Tie-In is always welcome as I am on a Doctor Who tear at the moment.

"The troll was not especially large as trolls go: six feet and a bit, maybe seven at most."

The Road to Farringale

I've got most of my things tentatively planned. I'm still thinking about Located in Asia. I've found quite a few Asian-inspired books, but I'm not sure they're actually set in Asia.

I'm kicking around Under the Dome for 1k. It just skids in over the 1k mark at 1074 pages.

Arthurian will be pretty easy, and I have lots of options for free book.

I don't know what I'll do for 1k. I've been looking for omnibus editions, but the things keep coming in at 750-950 pages. I did find the Shannara trilogy, but I keep hearing mixed things about that. Anyone read it?

I guess I could reread LotR.

Here is what I have so far.

B1: Female Leader ~
B2: Published in 2024 ~ Floating Hotel or Space Oddity
B3: Published Before 1960 ~ Player Piano
B4: Steampunk ~ A Master of Djinn
B5: Features an Animal ~A Night in the Lonesome October

I1: New to You Author ~ The 13 Clocks
I2: Based on a Game ~ The Silver Eyes
I3: Dystopia ~ Logan's Run
I4: Indie Author ~ The Road to Farringale
I5: Start a Spinoff Series ~ Homeland

N1: A Ghost Story ~ A Christmas Carol
N2: Located in Asia ~
N3: FREE ~ Starter Villain?
N4: Military SFF ~ On Basilisk Station
N5: Anthology ~

G1: More Than 1K Pages ~
G2: Arthurian ~
G3: Alternate Form ~ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore: The Original Screenplay
G4: Features a Magical Building ~ Clean Sweep
G5: Title Contains a Color ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray

O1: Translated ~ Planet of the Apes
O2: Features a Performer ~ Discount Armageddon
O3: Time Travel ~ The Man Who Folded Himself
O4: Award Winner ~ American Gods
O5: Alternate History ~ His Majesty's Dragon

Looks like a great card. I'm going to try again in 2024. This year went poorly for personal reasons, but I'm excited to get back to normal now! Definitely looking to see what other pick for Indie Author.

I'm loosely adopting Andrea's theme of non-human humanoid characters. I have lots of books that will potentially fit. Most of what I have so far are on theme, but a few aren't.

✔ B1: Start a New Series:
The Maze Runner (09/04/2023) ★★★★
B2: Space Opera:
How Much for Just the Planet?
B3: Features a Parallel or Portal World:
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
B4: Shared World:
The Librarians and the Pot of Gold (reading)
B5: Published Before 1945:
The King of Elfland's Daughter

I1: Elfpunk:
Welcome to Bordertown (reading)
✔ I2: Features a Musician:
Station Eleven (08/19/2023) ★★★★★
I3: SF/F Omnibus:
Riddle-Master
I4: New to you Author:
TBD
✔ I5: Children's Book:
Smith of Wootton Major (1/7/2023) ★★★★

N1: Genre Blender:
Detective Strongoak and the Case of the Dead Elf
N2: Continue a Series:
Unfallen Dead
N3: SF/F Book that was Free:
TBD
N4: Title Starts with the Letter V:
TBD
N5: Alternate Form:
The Hobbit: Graphic Novel

G1: Published in 2023:
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
✔ G2: Written by a Favorite Author:
Neverwhere (08/26/2023) ★★★★★
G3: SF/F Anthology:
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
Dreams Underfoot
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
✔ G4: Reread an SF/F Novel:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (01/12/2023) ★★★★★
G5: Features a Non-Human Humanoid:
The Cruel Prince
Legends & Lattes


O1: Translated from Another Language:
The Time of Contempt
The Neverending Story
O2: Award Winner:
TBD
O3: Features a Female Protagonist:
Snowspelled
O4: Urban Fantasy:
Small Favor
O5: Finish a Series:
TBD

I've already given some ideas, but I will throw out there that I wouldn't mind seeing Omnibus show up on a card.

I'm reasonably sure Charles DeLint's stuff would fit Elfpunk. At least some of it.

I was doing some research and discovered that Elfpunk is a thing:

https://bookriot.com/elfpunk/

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

I don't know if you've ever read Detective Strongoak and the Case of the Dead Elf or any of the other books in the series. I discovered it on Amazon a couple of years back. The first book is only 99 cents, and it's kind of a hardboiled mystery from what I can tell. I still have to read it myself.

I like this theme idea. I might adapt it a bit for my own uses.

I was thinking "by a favorite author" or even "lesser known work by a famous author"

These are my ideas right now.

B1: Featuring a Station or Inn
On a Red Station, Drifting
B2: Prequel
The Children of Húrin
The Crown Tower
B3: Award Winner
Neverwhere
B4: High Fantasy
The Sword of Shannara
B5: Silkpunk
The Grace of Kings

I1: Based on Fairy Tales or Folklore
Speak Easy
I2: Features Time Travel
The Eyre Affair
I3: Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic
The Maze Runner
I4: Anthology
The Draco Tavern
Dreams Underfoot
I5: Published in 2022
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
The Kaiju Preservation Society

N1: Written by an Indie Author
The Road to Farringale
N2: Takes Place in the Distant Future
Dune
N3: SF/F Book that was Free
The Tombs of Atuan
N4: Featuring Telepathy or Psychic Abilities
The Demolished Man
N5: Young Adult
Renegades
Spinning Silver

G1: Features a Character with a Tail
Tailchaser's Song
G2: Features an Invasion
Magician: Apprentice
G3: Protagonist that is a Detective or Cop
The Caves of Steel
G4: Published Pre-20th Century
The War of the Worlds
G5: Features Bio or Nano Tech
Prey

O1: Book with a Beautiful Cover
The Fall of Gondolin
Radiance
O2: New to you Author
Thieftaker
O3: Features a Clone or Doppelganger
Old Man's War
O4: Translated from Another Language
The Last Wish
Return From the Stars
O5: Alternate Form
Fantastic Beasts - The Secrets of Dumbledore: The Original Screenplay

Thank you for all the ideas! I'll be checking these out. :)

I love all the punks. The atompunk aesthetic is awesome, and I love the movies/books that have grown out of it. Another I'm intrigued by is decopunk. I might do a side "punk" challenge and see how many I can read next year.