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PANFANDOM REC MEME

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Rec meme! You ask for recs, and others provide (or fill!).

Maybe there's something you'd really like to see but you can't find it. Why not ask for help? It might be out there! Or maybe there's something you really loved reading and you want someone to geek over it with. Why not rec it to someone else? Maybe they'll love it too! Who knows, someone out there might be looking for something that sounds exactly like someone you know just created.

Don't feel bad about reccing your own stuff, either! Apparently someone else wants to see it, right?

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Fandom: Any

Preferred Medium: Novels - or introduce me to manga if you know there's something awesome I should check out.

Preferred Genre: mystery, science fiction, fantasy

Characters/Pairings: (gen preferred but side romances are fine if they don't distract from the plot).

Anything else? Details? Looking for a longish series to get into - people being awesome at their jobs and team oriented / team as family would be awesome.

One Piece? It's epic length, fantasy, has people being fantastic at their jobs, and has team-as-family themes like whoa.

AYRT

Hmmm I tried the Anime and it seemed too silly for my tastes, but maybe I need to try again because people keep recommending it...

Thanks!

Maybe try the Manga? I liked it better.

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For novels--Mercedes Lackey? Tamora Pierce? Patrick Rothfuss? Maybe Piers Anthony--Proton-Phaze, not Xanth.

For manga--the request for "team as family" obligates me to recommend Saiyuki by Minekura Kazuya.

AYRT

Well that looks interesting! Thank you, I'll check it out.

Animorphs is 54 books in the main series, 64 if you count the spin offs, and it is amazing. It was written back in the 90's, but they're re-releasing them now.

nayrt

OP, just so you know, this series is a kid's series. Like, middle grade. I thought it was awesome when I was reading it when I was 8, and I still love it to death even now, but if you're not into kid's books, be forewarned. -.0;

OP

I am aware - I used to watch the tv show version.

AYRT

Something to consider! I used to watch the tv show (though I think I only got a chance to see part of it somewhere in the middle - not the whole thing).

Thanks!

You know what, I will never get a better chance to pimp this out, so I will go ahead and recommend the Greywalker series by Kat Richardson. Seven books, urban fantasy/mystery (she's a private eye that kind of gets roped into a secondary job as a troubleshooter for the spiritual community after she dies for two minutes and comes back with the ability to see ghosts), and she's very good at her job. Unfortunately no family emphasis, but there's a sidekick crew that keep coming back now and then that are awesome, and the romance is decidedly secondary. Probably notable for being one of the few urban fantasy series with a female protagonist that isn't dating a vampire or a werewolf, actually.

AYRT

Oh those look interesting! Thank you!

the Miles Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold are excellent plotty character-based sci-fi, with politics and war and a crazy-awesome protagonist. lots of competence and smart, very team/friend/family-oriented. some romance, but it's really only the focus in one book, and that's honestly more about the intrigue and science and why it's bad to conduct a courting like a military campaign. Young Miles/Warrior's Apprentice is a good starting point.

I sincerely hope you've already read A Song of Ice and Fire, by George RR Martin, but just in case you haven't it is massive and epic, spanning entire continents' worth of characters and plot threads. very dense, can be difficult to get into, gritty as shit, anyone can die. tv series also worth a watch. some romance, not the focus and it pretty much never ends well.

the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik are basically the Napoleonic Wars plus dragons. a winning formula by any measure. they're an addition to a country's arsenal, treated sort of like huge flying sentient Navy ships, which becomes hilarious when a bonifide British Naval Captain reluctantly acquires one. more plot, politics, action, and dragon-related shenanigans than you could shake a stick at, an epic Power Trio, excellent secondary cast, well worth a read. no real romance, serious bromance, loads and loads of friendship and loyalty.

the Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher, a little heavy on the angst at time, but some fascinating world-building, with a really solid main character and a great supporting cast of cops and pixies, faeries and REAL vampires. keep an eye out for the vanilla human mafia don tangling blind with the supernatural and damn near winning. some romance, rarely successful or lasting.

that's all I can think of off the top of my head? I hope there's something new on there.

Ooh, seconding Temeraire like a house on fire!

...wtf self that metaphor makes no sense

it's cool, Iskierka approves.

AYRT

I've heard of all of those! And even read a couple - Dresden Files and the Temeraire books. I'll have to check the others out. Thanks!

Seconding the Vorkosigan saga, and, actually, if you buy Cryoburn, the latest in the series, new (but I'm pretty sure only in hardcover) the rest of the series is included on a CD. Baen, the publisher, does this with a lot of their longer running series.

the left behind series is pretty long (like 16 books in the series, iirc). it's apocalyptic but focuses on the rapture, and as such, it's a religious series. it was a little preachy only once or twice though, and as a nonreligious person, i really enjoyed the story. the protags form an impenetrable bond through their ordeals so if you can get past the religion thing (i know the subject is a turn-off for a lot of people) then i think you might like it.

AYRT

Totally not my cup of tea, but thanks for the suggestion.

Try the Nightside books by Simon R Green - about a private detective who works in the "Nightside", ie the supernatural region of London. Crazy mythology and great characters.

I also second the recs for the Dresden Files and Temeraire.

AYRT

Those look good, thank you!

Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London mystery series?

AYRT

I have the first one of that actually! I forgot it's on my eBook reader!

Ooh, I think you'd like Naoki Urasawa's "Monster" and "20th Century Boys"! Especially Monster, it's awesome.

AYRT

Thanks, I'll check that out!

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