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One of my favorite HFY series from r/HFY. It’s urban fantasy mixed with slice of life. The author has since moved off Reddit and is now posting it on the Royal Road website!

This one’s sci-fi, and in my opinion pretty HFY too. I personally think it helps if you know stuff about Alan Turing, but if not it’s still a good read.

Link takes you to a PDF on an external site, not to a page on Reddit....

Not my work but a very early and really moving example of HFY....

This is a massively reworked repost. The original has been posted a couple of weeks ago. I reworked it several times so it bears little connection to the original....

Did you ever hear the tragedy of the Martians who invaded Earth? I thought not. It’s not a story the humans would tell you. It’s an old legend of theirs. The Martians were rulers of the planet Mars in the Sol system, the same system as Earth, so powerful and so wise they were able to build spaceships capable of crossing the...

All human stories and ideas seem to have a life of their own because in a way, they do....

A Spark in the Dark...

The Screechers...

Iris the missile online. Target acquired. Function initialized. Propulsion engaged. Ascent nominal. Flight path calculated and synchronized. Iris will travel precisely to its designated coordinates. Iris must hit its mark with accuracy and efficiency. Guidance system is operating within Expected Parameters. I am alive....

Part2 / Part 4...

Part 1 - Part 3...

What is HFY, HWTF, HASO and WC?...

Chapter 2...

This is a collection of short writing prompts of very different styles, organized as disorganized Transcripts during the Zombie Apocalypse from 2023. Some are funny, some serious, some insightful, some describe military operations. No Transcript is like another....

After the crushing defeat marking the end to the 2. Human-Illirian War the United Illirian Planets disbanded Humanity’s military forces leaving only intra-system police and customs crafts as well as, after long protests by the Solarian temporary government, one warship to guard Voyager 1, continuing a 500-year-long tradition....

Part 1 | Part 2...

Chapter 1...

Hi all you lovely people out there in the wide world!...

So, I got this post on my lemmy client on android and wanted to reply, but I don’t see how. I see it’s been posted in !hfy and I can navigate here, but I can’t see anything but two posts, none of which contains that one I linked....

“The ambassador of the human civilisation will speak now.”...

Hi all,...

It had been a hard day’s work, but everything was ready for tomorrow. The cart was filled to the brim with baskets and crates. 34 baskets alone for Master Fremdon alone took up the majority of the space, 12 pounds each, but also a wide selection of other vegetables and herbs to sell...