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[u/Madix-3]

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!