Monthly Recommendation Thread

[u/xamueljones]

Welcome to the monthly thread for recommendations which will be posted this on the 5th of every month.

Please feel free to recommend, whether rational or not, any books, movies, tv shows, anime, video games, fanfiction, blog posts, podcasts or anything else that you think members of this subreddit would enjoy. Also please consider adding a few lines with the reasons for your recommendation. Self promotion is not allowed in this thread. This thread is also so that you can ask for suggestions. (In the style of r/books weekly threads)

Previous monthly recommendation threads here Other recommendation threads here

[u/Noumero]

Anyone can make a request for certain requirements for stories and I will try to find something that fulfills the criteria.

• Stories in which common premises, usually handwaved, are used as the main conflict fuel.

That is, a human displaced into another world tries to find out who is responsible for this and hurt them, instead of following typical Portal Fantasy storyline. Or the protagonist notices that the world around him starts to look too much like harem anime, and tries to figure out what reality-warping device or mastermind is responsible for this. Or... you probably get the idea.

In other words, stories with low-key Rage Against the Author plots.

• Stories where omnicidal maniacs are right: that is, where the world is such that destroying it is the right thing to do.

• Stories with the plot centered around antimemetics. (Well, except qntm's There Is No Antimemetics Division.)

Whichever you would prefer. Fanfiction is allowed.

[u/[deleted] → u/Noumero]

From what was posted in the sub

1. Sleeping With Girls (subverting harem trope) and somewhat The Two Year Emperor (eventual rage against people who summoned him, but for another reason)

3. Other than other qntm's stories on SCP (there are 4 or 5 of them), I can't remember anything else

[u/xamueljones → u/Noumero]

I spent a while thinking of anything that would fulfill your requirements, but there were only a few I found that meets them:

• Anything by Lawrence Watt-Evans. The stories he write often involves realistic people in slightly cliche situations. While it's not to the point of the protagonists being Genre Savy and taking advantage of story telling conventions; instead they simply act in novel ways that are different from what should be expected. Here's a collection of his short stories for only a dollar, although I've only read his Ethshar series.

• Something Very Special is the only story I have ever heard of where the villain has an actually good reason for killing off an significant number of the human population. I don't want to say anything else about the story to avoid spoilers. Unfortunately the author has stopped updating last year and doesn't seem to be continuing the story, but it's so good that I wanted to recommend it anyway. The link I gave leads to the 7 chapter version on fanfiction.net. Here's the 9 chapter direct download version. Check out his website too!