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I have been following Worm for some time now; it's one of the better things I've ever read in any genre. The first time I saw it I basically marathoned through the archives overnight forgoing sleep; I didn't really regret that. It's got really interesting plotting and writing, with strong characters and a great setting and background detail. For another Web Serial, I strongly recommend Ra, by Sam Hughes. It is a great story with strongly written characters and one of the most interesting and intriguing settings I have read. The author's own summary, which doesn't really do justice to it, is as follows: Ra posted:Magic is real. His other fiction on his website includes a number of shorter pieces, and the enormously long Fine Structure; These are all tremendously variable in quality, with Fine Structure in particular having some really amazingly well-written and interesting parts as well as some really poor sections. But Ra is uniformly excellent in every section so far, so I recommend checking that out. The only major qualification I have against recommending Ra is that it is published both irregularly and infrequently, even by the standards of web fiction (most of which is nowhere near as regular and consistent as Worm). Edit to avoid double-posting: The most recent section of Worm, Interlude 24, just got posted. It is really, really incredibly awesome, and I am glad Wildbow didn't leave the situation in suspense until Tuesday as I was worried would occur Great Gray Shrike fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jun 22, 2013 |
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I agree that I wasn't too enthusiastic about Worm's current story direction. It's a bit of a disappointment in a way after the huge amount of detailed and slow buildup before. In other new, Ra has updated. I quite like this story's direction so far, and this latest chapter only reaffirmed that impression.
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In non-Worm news, Ra has updated recently. It's quite interesting to see how things play out. I really liked this chapter, though I felt the ending was a bit cliffhanger-y. I look forward to seeing where this ends up.
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