Here are 51 outstanding stories of high fantasy from 2016-2017 that were either finalists for major SF/F awards 🏆, included in "year's best" SF/F anthologies 📙, or recommended by prolific reviewers 👍 in short fiction (see Q&A). That's 51 out of 166 high fantasy stories from those two years, and out of 470 outstanding SF/F stories from 2016 and 2017. Each story shows a "Recommended By" list where a score is tallied from the +2, +1 or +0 after each recommendation.
For our purposes, we define "high fantasy" as a fantasy story that takes place in a secondary world. That is, something like Lord of the Rings, where Middle Earth is clearly not in the past or future of our world.
We've included portal fantasies, provided the destination is a secondary world.
Observations:
- 31 are free online (click to see yellow highlights).
- 16 (almost 1/3) are from Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- The most prolific author in this list is Lois McMaster Bujold with 3 novellas.
- RSR recommended 28 of the stories and only recommended against 2.
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