Books Read
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dsrtao98 Life in the North
99 Redeemer of the Dead
100 The Cost of Survival
101 Cities in Chains
102 Coast on Fire
103 World Unbound
104 Stars Awoken
Books 1-7 of the System Apocalypse, by Tao Wong.
In the first week, 60% of humanity dies. Around the end of the first year, 90% have died. The population more or less stabilizes there.
The universe is a simulation*, governed by the System. When mana pressure builds up sufficiently in a given volume of space, the System stops enforcing most laws of physics and leaves them as rough heuristics; the System's goal appears to be to optimize mana processing.
The System is cruel, the System is unfair. The System bears an uncanny resemblance to a gaming system. Earth is now a Dungeon World, and an awful lot of Galactic visitors are coming. They want to level up.
The first book is oddly paced and poorly edited. It gets significantly better in the next two, and is more or less professional quality by book 3. It's not kwalitee literachoor, but Wong has a pretty good calibration for how much of a battle should be glossed over lightly. Light entertainment.
99 Redeemer of the Dead
100 The Cost of Survival
101 Cities in Chains
102 Coast on Fire
103 World Unbound
104 Stars Awoken
Books 1-7 of the System Apocalypse, by Tao Wong.
In the first week, 60% of humanity dies. Around the end of the first year, 90% have died. The population more or less stabilizes there.
The universe is a simulation*, governed by the System. When mana pressure builds up sufficiently in a given volume of space, the System stops enforcing most laws of physics and leaves them as rough heuristics; the System's goal appears to be to optimize mana processing.
The System is cruel, the System is unfair. The System bears an uncanny resemblance to a gaming system. Earth is now a Dungeon World, and an awful lot of Galactic visitors are coming. They want to level up.
The first book is oddly paced and poorly edited. It gets significantly better in the next two, and is more or less professional quality by book 3. It's not kwalitee literachoor, but Wong has a pretty good calibration for how much of a battle should be glossed over lightly. Light entertainment.
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Date: 2019-08-04 11:59 am (UTC)*If the laws of your universe include magic, and the magic behaves consistently and repeatably, so that it is testable and predictable, one should automatically assume the simulation hypothesis.