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So, what are you reading?
Still on The End of Faith, Menace of the Herd and Non-Computable You.
I just caught up with Thresholder , by Alexander Wales.
TL;DR, it's a cross-over isekai/Highlander kinda deal, where characters from across a multiverse are invited to cross through portals and find themselves in a new world. There's another one, and in true Highlander fashion, there can only be one. Once defeated, or victorious, a portal opens up to let the winner through, and if the loser is incapacitated but alive, they get one for themselves.
The MC starts off in media res, as knock-off Iron Man. Good AI assistant, but a suit that's far less powerful. He started off in 2022 Earth, went to Earth 2 that's about 20 years more advanced, where he picked up a genius inventor girlfriend and said suit. He rapidly loses said girlfriend at the hands of another Thresholder, and then continues journeying through worlds in an effort to find a way to resurrect her.
I'd say it's a 7.5/10 fic. Nowhere near as good as Worth The Candle or Metropolitan Man, but a decent enough progression fantasy and a way to kill the time.
Any thoughts on "Shadows of the Limelight"? I loved "Worth the Candle" and "Metropolitan Man" (and "The Randi Prize", and "Instruments of Destruction"), but I couldn't get in to SotL and I still wonder if I just gave up too soon and didn't make it to the good part.
It definitely gets better than it is in the beginning, and I'd say is worth the read, but not a particularly good story.
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