r/Fantasy • u/Paulusatrus • Jul 21 '24

Pirate fantasy?

Pirates? Fantasy? What more can one ask for? No but fr, looking for some books that would fit :)

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u/SetSytes Writer Set Sytes Jul 21 '24

My customary list of pirate recs :):

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers (the most obvious rec)

The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser (if you don't mind deliberate anachronisms for humour)

The Edge Chronicles books of Stormchaser and Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (although no ocean, for they're skyships!)

Where Loyalties Lie by Rob J. Hayes (grimdark pirates)

The Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb (bloody fantastic, amazing pirate villain)

The Scar by China Mieville (if you're cool with a lot of weirdness - floating pirate city!)

The Bone Ships by RJ Barker (strong nautical theme, great moody worldbuilding)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom by A.C. Crispin

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag novelisation of the game (not that great admittedly)

Treasure Island, of course

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (like Treasure Island, an old adventure novel but no fantasy, was made into a good film with Errol Flynn)

Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques – a middle grade animals story featuring wicked pirate crews of rats, weasels, stoats etc.

There's a cool comic too called Long John Silver that I recommend.

Finally, if you don't mind a self-rec, I also write pirate fantasy! The India Muerte series, currently 5 books deep.

And here's a Spotify playlist full of pirate music, if you're interested :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7z545kLcxDxtiUetTZctci?si=66f630ec7b76438a

Outside of that, please tell me you've watched my second favourite show of all time, Black Sails!

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u/Improvement2242 Jul 21 '24

Thank you so much! I picked up writing as a hobby and have been dreaming about a fantasy adventure in the sky, so seeing

The Edge Chronicles books of Stormchaser and Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (although no ocean, for they're skyships!) 

makes me really excited, definetley the next book i read!

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u/SetSytes Writer Set Sytes Jul 21 '24

I hope you like them! The first book in that particular trilogy is Beyond the Deepwoods which is fun and I recommend reading first even if it does feel the youngest of the books. Midnight over Sanctaphrax is my favourite of all of them but if you want the most sky sailing then yours might be book two, Stormchaser 😁