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Over on reddit there's an entire genre of this sort of fiction in /r/hfy
The main contributor continued writing it on a full novel scale at https://deathworlders.com/ .
However...Imho after about 40 chapters, it really loses it's way (bar a couple of cool minor plots). And the author goes a bit right wing rhetoric/muscleporn-y.
I just got frustrated with it.
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You've got the battle for the survival of an entire planet after they all got biodroned.How many chapters that actually detail what happened? It felt like all it did was go
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Attack announced, humans arrive and set up a beach head, daar flattens a few cities in the background.Then spends more time talking about how he is burdened and manly as a result of doing it than the actual doing.
The Hell storyline after that gave me hope, as I trudged through chapters of "cor, look at Adam's muscular muscles muscling", but once that finished, and we started getting storylines like "Why can't we have guns in Folctha? Murica!", I kinda gave up.
Read the first 2 chapters, and so far seems pretty neat.
I thought it was.
Interactive Education was always my favorite series from r/HFY