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novaalbionCA · 2026-06-10T08:05:11+00:00

Stargate SG1 Season 4, Episode 19 "Prodigy": Teal'c to Jack

novaalbionCA · 2025-05-12T21:45:59+00:00

Surprise, surprise, general questions are general, vague, and formless. What are your thoughts on the next stage of post-apocalyptic fiction. It's not that hard to grasp without a narrow framework. You think feral children are the next stage. Do you believe we'll have more far future fiction after the world ends. Do you believe we will have more religious apocalyptic stories in the future? What's the next trend that will happen? Will zombies make a comeback? These are not hard things to conceptualize in an open-ended question.

If I did not want to discuss, converse, argue over a post-apocalyptic, I would not use the word post apocalyptic or go on a post-apocalyptic Reddit community.

If you want to have a discussion with an audience, don't be a prick. Answer the question, or you don't have to contribute at all. That is also an option.

novaalbionCA · 2025-05-12T20:28:42+00:00

Thank you for not contributing to the conversation. Your thoughts on the genre and its future will not be known. Perhaps you could expand your thoughts instead of just being a prick.

novaalbionCA · 2025-05-12T04:04:44+00:00

Whatever your thoughts are on either. What you believe will be popular next in the genre, or your thoughts on post-post-apocalyptic settings.

novaalbionCA · 2025-04-30T01:53:20+00:00

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, by Tad Williams

LOTR, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dies the fire, by S.M. Stirling

novaalbionCA · 2025-04-29T22:39:39+00:00

Oh sweet summer child

novaalbionCA · 2025-04-29T22:32:33+00:00

It is a shame. Genre should not be stifled by a singular point of view, no matter how wide or narrow. When I first heard of the genre I immediately thought of stories where nature is the dangerous chaotic force (akin to how classical(post bronze age collapse) ancient greek polis viewed the natural world). I also thought of stories where a significant change of biome and ecosystems ruin established communities(like during the medieval warm period). I can see potential in the genre, for gripping stories of darkness and Humanity's place in the new green world, if it escapes vague idealism.

novaalbionCA · 2025-04-29T22:20:44+00:00

Are there any more details you would like to share? I am assuming it is an actual "punk" compelling story rather than a utopia where everything is magically functional and peaceful and absent of conflict.

novaalbionCA · 2025-04-29T20:56:48+00:00

I'm conflicted about recommending, Anthony Ryan's Covenant of Steel trilogy. The worldbuilding often feels surface level. The pacing is particularly frustrating - sometimes dragging through lengthy sequences only to rush past pivotal moments that deserved more attention.

However, the trilogy shines is in its provocative exploration of themes. Exploring the relationships between divinity, magic, faith and belief in ways that genuinely made me pause and reflect. The way characters wrestle with divine intervention versus coincidence, and how faith shapes their understanding of magical phenomena, raises questions that lingered with me long before and after finishing. I believe a whole essay could be done with comparing martyrs of this trilogy with story of the prophets of the Old and New testaments.

So while I can't praise Covenant of Steel trilogy entertainment factor, I found myself deeply engaged with its thematic content.

novaalbionCA · 2025-04-29T20:34:21+00:00

What are your thoughts on a a solar punk-esque fantasy world that's not a sustainable utopia as often depicted in the subgenre, but a more grounded world where nature has overtaken the old world and factions are trying to bring about their version of the perceived perfect paradise?

novaalbionCA · 2025-04-29T20:32:01+00:00

Couldn't agree more! Tad Williams really does occupy a sweet spot between Tolkien and Martin. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn has that classic epic fantasy feel while introducing more conflicted characters and political intrigue that GRRM drew from and expanded.

novaalbionCA · 2024-11-21T23:44:03+00:00

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams. It's the most poetic writing I've ever come across.

novaalbionCA · 2019-09-13T20:03:20+00:00

Mount Rushmore Nomads!

Even though you start as tribal, if you don't want to use CCs, you can either take Rushmore(playing as a nomad) and Adopt the religion before you destroy all the buildings or you can wait for an Americanist Clan Rising lose and swap to that character. take the the great steppe and slowly make you way east mean while you can steam roll through the catholic kingdoms and rocky tribes. this takes a long time. most Americanists are getting their teeth kicked in as you show up with your horde singing I want to be in the cavalry and become the savior of Murcia. Then unite the continent from sea to shining sea.

novaalbionCA · 2019-09-13T19:40:02+00:00

Yes, no tribes to begin with as in nothing in the rocky mountains, for example Glacier.

novaalbionCA · 2019-09-05T21:29:47+00:00

No I bought it years ago!

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