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kleinbl00  ·  3676 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Goodbye Hubski, Thanks for Trying

That's kind of awesome. I'ma check that out.

There was a brief shining period when Breaking Dawn was going to happen but hadn't quite happened where this piece was completely hilarious.





user-inactivated  ·  3676 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm sold on that article you linked, by the way. They describe the main character as "lacteal." Of all the words for having pale skin...

Kaius  ·  3675 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd have gone with 'anaemic'...

user-inactivated  ·  3676 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's long and as strange as you'd guess. Eminently worth it, though. I accidentally got deep into the rationalist fiction community (which means anything from the denser side of Yudkowsky to merely making sure your plots are idiot ball-proof) and am really loving the output.

Scions include

Ra

HPMoR

Worm

This retelling of Superman (?)

and Luminosity. Turns out you don't have suspend disbelief to write/read good fiction!

rene  ·  3675 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My favorite is HPMoR, which imo is the most well written. Worm is second best although...substantial. Honestly, I couldn't get into a lot of the other ones because of the "fan fic style" they're written in, it immediately takes me out of the story.

Have you read any Neal Stephenson (I'm sure you have)? He has a similar writing style.

user-inactivated  ·  3675 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm sitting on Anathem ... god if I could stop time...

Also, I made a longer post in case you missed it.

rene  ·  3675 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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kleinbl00  ·  3676 days ago  ·  link  ·  

'k, so I can maybe do one of these... at least to start. Get me started, dawg. Hell, make a post. This seems a weird place to continue this discussion, considering.

user-inactivated  ·  3676 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Will do.