Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?
Novels, nonfiction, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, etc - everything counts!
Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?
Novels, nonfiction, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, etc - everything counts!
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33726/first-contact
First Contact by Ralts Bloodthorne (no relation)
Eight Thousand Years after the Glassing of Earth, Terran Descent Humanity has largely become a post-scarcity society based on consent and enjoying life. With the discovery of another ancient race beyond the "Great Gulf", events and history collide to draw the Terran Confederacy into war against a hundred million year old empire that has always won and believes it always will. With allies and enemies of multiple species, the Orion Galactic Arm Spur will be wracked by warfare the likes of which have not been seen. Cracked, harried, wounded, and damaged, Terran Descent Humanity willfully throws itself against the universe itself. "The universe hates you and will take away everything you love, laughing while it does so." - Terran belief.How far in are you? Is it good? It sounds interesting to me.
Edit: oh wait. Maybe this is too much for me… “The story is 700+ chapters, and repeating characters do not start appearing until the Vuxten chapters”
I am on chapter 907. According to the Royal Road page estimate, that’s over 10,000 paperback book pages equivalent. It’s a helluva ride, and the price can’t be beat.
Vuxten appears around chapter 50, iirc. He’s not the first to recur, but he is a fan favourite.
I tend to read it in bursts. I catch up about once every 3 months.