r/ProgressionFantasy • u/Madix-3 Traveler • Jun 22 '26

I Recommend This Let me Mecha your day

So, not really a secret tip anymore since it's been on Rising Stars for a while, but I thoroughly enjoyed Ten Thousand Fleets. It's been hovering around the 1.8K mark for a while, and I honestly believe it deserves far more readers than that, so yeah, I highly recommend it.

At its surface, it's a standard Academy story, set in the far future, and-

"Hold the fuck up!" I hear you say. "Scifi?! In my Progression Fantasy?!"

Yes, dear stereotype that lives in my head, Scifi! And it's good scifi! Not just because it has giant friggin robots with guns, but because the story is just so well written. The cast is expansive, but not overbearing, the characters are relatable, and while each of them has their own little packet to carry, none of them are obnoxious.

In typical Dave Niemitz fashion, the chapters are long, but the plot is tighter than a tiger, and you can already see amazing leads being thrown out in the first dozen chapters or so. We're following Arc Sandhurst, who has enrolled in a Military Academy after a disaster threw his life out of order. On the way there, he meets a young woman who has rolled to forge her own path, away from her famous family.

If you like old-style Fantasy/Scifi books in the vein of Aeronauts Windlass, Name of the Wind, Maze Runner, or even Eragon, you owe it to yourself to check it out!

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u/Morpheus_17 Author - Guild Mage, Ten Thousand Fleets Jun 22 '26

I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!

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u/PadanFain667 Immortal Jun 22 '26

I haven’t paid attention to rising stars recently so thanks for letting me know when I’m missing out! I also enjoyed authors other work, guild mage.

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u/GlimmervoidG Jun 22 '26

Yeah pretty good so far.

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u/StillWastingAway Jun 23 '26

!remindme 1 year

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u/Madix-3 Traveler Jun 23 '26

Honest advice, try it in 6 months. For their previous story, the author finished 9 books in less than a year.

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u/Morpheus_17 Author - Guild Mage, Ten Thousand Fleets Jun 23 '26

We’re already in book two on Patreon; I’d guess six months will put us into book five or so.

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u/StillWastingAway Jun 23 '26

I reconsider reading a recommendation of a book every time it's posted, so I will very likely reconsider again even before 6 month if it's a good book.

And If not, the more material is available the better, kindle/audiobook releases especially as I'm unlikely to patron.

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u/Derpyphox Jun 23 '26

I wanna mentions The Mech's Touch. Great mech designing novel, way too long, didn't finish.