A story that had intriguing and original ideas that kept bringing me back, but turned into a perfect storm of things to break my SoD: Succession.
This is a Worm continuation fic that carries on after the end of the story but has nothing to do with Taylor. Instead a powerful parahuman who ruled one of the many versions of Earth is looking for a successor to receive her power. The world building and exploration of the secondary characters it focused on was good, but there were two things that made me "go huh?"
1) There was a big build up to a comet passing close to Earth, and when it finally happened the author managed to get almost everything about a comet getting that close and how people would react to it wrong. Relative velocities, scale of distance, events outside of an atmosphere, events inside of an atmosphere, how incredibly rare this occurrence is, etc.
2) The antagonist of this piece kept doing things that made absolutely no sense in light of her stated goals.
The author eventually decided that the complaints had merit, the story wasn't salvageable, and moved on.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
This is a Worm continuation fic that carries on after the end of the story but has nothing to do with Taylor. Instead a powerful parahuman who ruled one of the many versions of Earth is looking for a successor to receive her power. The world building and exploration of the secondary characters it focused on was good, but there were two things that made me "go huh?"
1) There was a big build up to a comet passing close to Earth, and when it finally happened the author managed to get almost everything about a comet getting that close and how people would react to it wrong. Relative velocities, scale of distance, events outside of an atmosphere, events inside of an atmosphere, how incredibly rare this occurrence is, etc.
2) The antagonist of this piece kept doing things that made absolutely no sense in light of her stated goals.
The author eventually decided that the complaints had merit, the story wasn't salvageable, and moved on.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.