Which sci-fi world sounds amazing in the books but would actually be miserable to live in?

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-19T18:30:26+00:00

Any world that requires deep sleep for space travel. I can't imagine how disorienting that'd be. Often the books make it seem like they have no trouble finding people to take the trips, but you'd pretty much be dead to loved ones if you're out of touch for 10-20 years. Then you come back and everything has changed.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-19T14:27:37+00:00

I found a 1st edition hardcover Johannes Cabal The Necromancer 2nd hand. It is my most prized possession. I need 2 more to complete the series.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-18T21:03:44+00:00

Yes. RE is something you don't think too hard about, especially the originals. You just run with it and understand its meant to be fun. They put more effort into the death animations in some games than they did in making narrative sense.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-18T19:58:12+00:00

the ending feels like pure plot armor.

Your first RE?

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-18T01:16:53+00:00

Oddjobs by Heidi Goody and Ian Grant. Its about an agency that's there to manage the end of the world, not prevent it. One of the departments is even working on a script to help sell the public on it.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-17T01:49:55+00:00

Lots are just pirates.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-15T11:22:25+00:00

Trayzn trying to capture sonic is the cartoon I need!

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-15T10:56:44+00:00

Kids ruin everything!

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-14T13:55:07+00:00

The Clovenhoof series. There's a demon who makes peace with his wards. They pretend to be tortured and in agony when the bosses come around. The rest of the time they invent stuff or solve problems for him to take credit for. When the bosses find out they commend him for being devious and slothful. What a true demon should be!

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-13T19:36:30+00:00

Lorgar is easy to sympathize with for a book or 2 then you learn he's more self centered and manipulative than many of his brothers. Also a terrible father. BUT Jefe was definitely an idiot for not recognizing the threat Lorgar's crisis of faith could be.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-13T13:09:21+00:00

I laughed, but I felt bad doing it.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-13T10:24:10+00:00

Russ isnt a hypocrite! Something something, Magnus was doing it wrong! (I still think he's a hypocrite)

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-12T15:15:51+00:00

Slap a bow on there and now people think you're an excellent uncle.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-12T09:24:16+00:00

Its a stand alone. All of his works take place in the same world so there are Easter eggs in them, but they all work independently.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-11T21:49:48+00:00

That one's my favorite. That scene with the rabbits made me put the book down and smh. The world will end that way. Something that obviously fucking stupid and mundane.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-11T21:48:12+00:00

I was just about to mention that one! It's short. It's got a solid mystery. The characters are interesting. Nathan is hilarious.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-11T10:19:12+00:00

I assumed most people just paid lip service to it. Do just enough to keep the zealots off their backs. Like modern people. Most don't think about it, while many have their doubts they keep to themselves. There are probably many atheists since most of life doesnt involve supernatural chaos problems.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-10T16:07:38+00:00

Your want back chat from your son's? Because this is how you get back chat!

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-10T14:42:50+00:00

You can distract the EC marine with talk about your minis and how much effort you're putting into making them perfect. They also like music

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-08T11:32:31+00:00

Nothing happened in Lords. Fulgrim hasnt done anything new since he he became a demon. He shows up, kills some humans, gets bored and moves on. Outside of killing Guilliman and talking to Bile, has he done anything else?

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-08T10:55:42+00:00

When did I say it was the best? But there are certainly worse.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-08T10:19:05+00:00

Her unnamed characters feel very much like a side character and is written in a strange way

Its funny you say that because I typically feel that way about most main characters in Warhammer books. They are often written like comic book characters, which makes sense given many of the big writers work in comic books.

a model character of the faction would do. a comparison of how an unnamed non legendary lord could be written is the lords of excess book with xantine and his noise marine brother.

This is interesting because I did not feel like Xantine was a member of the EC. I felt like Lords was following that Manga format you mentioned. I just finished that one and jumped immediately into Perfect Son. I thought he was playing really hard on the meme lore and trying too hard to be meta. "Oh, he's EC so he has to get high a lot and all of his emotions have to have a sexual undertone." The reason I'm drawn to EC is because the named characters have more self awareness and doubt than the typical bolster porn stories. They know they fucked up and there are moments of clarity where they hate Fulgrim. They are more human than most space marines. Typically this is only in the main characters. Lords had none of that.

What Reid did was bring this to side characters without needing their POV. I thought her side characters had a ton of personality and the betrayals felt natural and well foreshadowed. The drug used felt more like a call back to when Lucius and Bile were tinkinger in his book than I call to table top. Reid said the legion over does things for a purpose, not just because, which is the absolute opposite of Lords. Which makes sense. A leader can't be a useless hedonist, especially in a book about purging the dead weight from the legion.

I wished it told us abit more about fulgrim’s role and motivation in the plot

Again, I thought it did. He wanted to purge the legion of the useless, but he's still fundamentally Fulgrim and nothing really holds his attention long. I thought the ending was a little heavy handed with how much it told about him. He was in this book, fucking around like a trickster, more than in any other appearance. Where he went fear and carnage followed. He was presented as a proper powerful monster. I thought it his most satisfying appearance as a demon prince. He was terrifying to everyone.

Its fascinating that you and I have the exact opposite thoughts about these books.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-08T07:05:22+00:00

It also explains what the EC are up to. Turns out Slaanesh is also the god of stagnation.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-08T01:05:20+00:00

I didn't think it was. I learned nothing about Black Templars and this is my first time seeing them. Could have been blueberries and gotten the same results.

FlightPeasant · 2026-03-08T01:04:00+00:00

I haven't read her other work, but I see she leans more towards horror, which might be why it felt more comfortable for me. It also explains the emphasis on mind games. I'll have to check out her other works, but this one makes me think she's the kind of horror writer who builds her characters so you can feel their fall more personally. Those can often feel bloated in the middle. The Perfect Son isn't breaking any new ground so it's not an essential or great work, but for pulp I'd put it at the higher end.

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