Recommendation: FreeRiders/Integration

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Recommendation: FreeRiders/Integration

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Don't know if there's supposed to be a thread for stuff like this. If there is, I looked around a bit and totally missed it, so please don't shoot me :lol:

So I discovered this doorstopper of a webnovel earlier this year that really impressed me, and it just occurred to me right now there are probably some folks here who would like it at least as much as I did.
...there might also be at least a few who've already read it. But I'd be very surprised if it's much more than that. I certainly just stumbled onto it by accident while looking for a short story.

Testament to how much it impressed me is that it contains some elements that usually would turn me right off of these things, or at least make them less interesting. The authors managed to do them well enough and in inventive enough ways to make them part of what made me keep reading instead.

The way the story starts is a little bit complicated, there are a trio of prologue stories to the novel proper, at least one of them fairly long in its own right, that are important to read first if you want to get the most out of the plot and character development that happens later on. While I'd imagine the three could be read in any order you want, this was the order I started with:

Merging Traffic
https://shifti.org/wiki/User:Robotech_M ... ng_Traffic

Deserted
https://shifti.org/wiki/User:Robotech_Master/Deserted

This last one reads more like an introductory chapter to the story proper, so it's probably best to read it after the other two and go straight from there to "All Nighter"
https://shifti.org/wiki/User:Robotech_M ... Ers_dircut

Might as well clarify, in case there's some kind of confusion I didn't anticipate, that I was not involved in writing the story in any way. I just found it, read it, and liked it.

And finally, it's probably a good idea to mention that one of the two authors recently passed away. If there are folks around here who've already read the whole thing and want to comment on the writing in one way or another, I'd imagine that's something they'll want to know beforehand.
If, on the other fork of the tail, you just want to abuse me for my choice of reading material, you go right ahead :lol:
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Re: Recommendation: FreeRiders/Integration

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Sounds inspired.
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Looks intriguing, I'll have a read and let you know what I think.
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Vertigo Fox wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 11:17 pm Don't know if there's supposed to be a thread for stuff like this. If there is, I looked around a bit and totally missed it, so please don't shoot me :lol:

So I discovered this doorstopper of a webnovel earlier this year that really impressed me, and it just occurred to me right now there are probably some folks here who would like it at least as much as I did.
...there might also be at least a few who've already read it. But I'd be very surprised if it's much more than that. I certainly just stumbled onto it by accident while looking for a short story.

Testament to how much it impressed me is that it contains some elements that usually would turn me right off of these things, or at least make them less interesting. The authors managed to do them well enough and in inventive enough ways to make them part of what made me keep reading instead.

The way the story starts is a little bit complicated, there are a trio of prologue stories to the novel proper, at least one of them fairly long in its own right, that are important to read first if you want to get the most out of the plot and character development that happens later on. While I'd imagine the three could be read in any order you want, this was the order I started with:

Merging Traffic
https://shifti.org/wiki/User:Robotech_M ... ng_Traffic

Deserted
https://shifti.org/wiki/User:Robotech_Master/Deserted

This last one reads more like an introductory chapter to the story proper, so it's probably best to read it after the other two and go straight from there to "All Nighter"
https://shifti.org/wiki/User:Robotech_M ... Ers_dircut

Might as well clarify, in case there's some kind of confusion I didn't anticipate, that I was not involved in writing the story in any way. I just found it, read it, and liked it.

And finally, it's probably a good idea to mention that one of the two authors recently passed away. If there are folks around here who've already read the whole thing and want to comment on the writing in one way or another, I'd imagine that's something they'll want to know beforehand.
If, on the other fork of the tail, you just want to abuse me for my choice of reading material, you go right ahead :lol:
Read the first one, quite quirky, well written (in my humble opinion), not my usual fare but once I got over the whole anthro transformers premise I found it quite intriguing, hi tech fur sounds funky :D .
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Yeah that was pretty much my experience with it too. And once it got into the bigger story -- well, these writers knew how to keep the suspense and momentum going.

Rare to find a fic of this style that puts the story so thoroughly first.
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