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Worm
Eluvatar:
Worm is an awesome web serial novel I read a couple months back and am still enamored of.
The first thing I tell people about it is that it does for superhero stories what A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) did for fantasy.
It's 1.7 million words so, in print, it'd be quite the doorstopper (more like a series of novels than a single novel).
I earnestly recommend it.
PLEASE KEEP THIS THREAD SPOILER-SAFE
Please mark your spoiler tags with how far you've read / how far the comment within might spoil someone.
(click to show/hide)The technical quality of Wildbow's writing actually improves over the course of the serial, but this first chapter did manage to hook me in. At first, I didn't really get what was going on, but when Taylor revealed her superpowers... I knew things were going places.
While most people will loudly repeat IT GETS WORSE regarding any nasty goings-on in Worm, for this chapter it's actually safe to say it gets better :)
(click to show/hide)So yeah, I read this and I was all HOLY SHIT. The protagonist is struggling against terrible odds but is so amazingly resourceful. This world is suffused with realism: bad things exist and happen but it's not unrealistically awful. The heroes appear to be facing realistic problems and part of a real organization.
Also, thinking about it, I was thinking "oh yes, this really is what a world with superpowers would be like, basically, thank god I'm not living in a world like that".
(click to show/hide)So.... Arc 8: Extermination was appropriately titled, was it not?
Has it gotten real for you yet?
Khem:
Holy hell this series is addicting! Those who have not yet fallen into Worm definitely need to! Also I agree with Elu 110%!
(click to show/hide) Holy shit! I can't believe Jack fucking got away! That was like edge of your seat reading for sure! The total disregard Piggot had for the safety of villains made my blood boil.
Eluvatar:
--- Quote from: al' Khem on October 10, 2014, 08:26:22 PM ---Holy hell this series is addicting! Those who have not yet fallen into Worm definitely need to! Also I agree with Elu 110%!
(click to show/hide) Holy shit! I can't believe Jack fucking got away! That was like edge of your seat reading for sure! The total disregard Piggot had for the safety of villains made my blood boil.
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(click to show/hide)Just you wait.... :P
Khem:
(click to show/hide)“I’m not sure I understand. Does this have something to do with,” Annette waggled her fingers, “Powers?”
“No. It’s about regret, and coming to terms with it all.”
OMG! I can't even sum up my thoughts yet. I will post a more meaningful expression here when such comes to me. Just OMG!
edit: I still can't sum up all the awesome of this story. An amazing read that will make every other series about superheroes attempt to live up to its glory.
Eluvatar:
--- Quote from: al' Khem on November 04, 2014, 08:25:49 AM --- (click to show/hide)“I’m not sure I understand. Does this have something to do with,” Annette waggled her fingers, “Powers?”
“No. It’s about regret, and coming to terms with it all.”
OMG! I can't even sum up my thoughts yet. I will post a more meaningful expression here when such comes to me. Just OMG!
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(click to show/hide)Yes!!
I loved that epilogue, too :D
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