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Fiction Recommendation Request! And then a related question.
As I recall internet serials and similar megafiction were pretty popular around here, and I'm looking for new recommendations.
To help triangulate: Not a fan of Worm, Twig had really interesting worldbuilding but stumbled hard towards the end for me with the increasingly unreliable narrator arc. I've enjoyed The Wandering Inn, really like the fantasy elements and the interweaving of various mythologies, but probably won't keep going with it once the current arc finally wraps up. Mother of Learning was enjoyable but not truly catching in the same way. Millennial Mage is pleasantly 'cozy' but not the best prose. Just started This Used To Be About Dungeons.
For more traditional or classic fiction, I will always love the works of Ray Bradbury, John Bellairs, and Diane Duane. If there's anybody new with a voice like Bradbury's, let me know!
Now, the question- in TWI, Practical Guide to Evil, and Millennial Mage, gnomes come up. Not really as characters except in limited circumstances, but they're described as outrageously powerful and skilled as technologists. I don't recall that being any past myth regarding gnomes, so is that a D&D thing or derived from elsewhere?
There is no Anti-Memetics Division is a completed sci-fi/horror series written by some former mottizens inspired by the idea of a "sense making crisis", and "memetic warfare".
It's a reasonably quick read and probably one of the more well-written and well-known series on the SCP Wiki offering some interesting alternative takes on a bunch of core sci-fi and psychological horror tropes. If you like Philip K Dick and Ray Bradbury in his darker moods i recommend checking it out.
Huh, this is pretty good, and I had previously all but written off SCP as it got flooded by posers who can't write and people rehashing the same tired clichés /r/nosleep style.
Obvious similar recommendation which doesn't seem to have come up in this thread yet is Cordyceps: Too Clever for their Own Good.
What's your opinion on the original slutty doorknob?
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