@futurebird I just finished it, and it's good. The writing at the micro level isn't incredible, but the overall idea is very interesting. It kept my attention all the way through.
@futurebird 100% in-universe. It’s…extremely good assessed as what it is, which is a series of connected short stories submitted to a collaborative fiction project? They’re absolutely a talented writer; I’d love to see what they could do in the hands of a professional editor. That sounds like a caveat and I guess it is, but I enjoyed reading it and have recommended it to multiple people.
@memory@futurebird just read it all myself yesterday. I thought it was good stuff with great ideas. Needs editing, but I’ve read novel-length books by best-selling authors that were worse.
@futurebird it's SCP universe, but it's not deeply buried and i feel like probably doesn't need any particular familiarity with the lore to enjoy. knowing "SCP" is a thing in this context i think is probably more than enough
it's very good. well written, which is no guarantee with homebrew sf, and that goes in service of a narrative that hits a lot of high points for me personally and in general is well constructed on both a science-fiction-nal and a human level
i'd definitely recommend it. not that that's anything like a guarantee but if you like the first chapter i feel like odds are good of you liking the whole thing
@futurebird I've read it and enjoyed it very much. I'm not deeply into SCP lore, but know it exists and read a few entries over the years and I was perfectly fine following the story.
@futurebird I haven't read the ebook but I have read what I'm 99% sure is the same stories when the author posted them originally on the scp wiki site (I don't know if the ebook is different or if the version I read was complete), and they're absolutely great.
I would also strongly recommend the ebooks Fine Structure, Ra, and Valuable Humans In Transit by the same author (though the third one there is pretty short)
@futurebird You won't need SCP knowledge to read the Antimemetics Division stuff, although part of that is that SCP by design you should be able to pick up any random document and get what's happening (because everyone just KNOWS that They Must Be Doing This Somewhere)
@futurebird I haven't read the book but I loved the related series on SCP. I don't know if it's "canon" or whatever they call it, but I suspect it's a close cousin from the SCP works at farthest.
@futurebird It's completely SCP stuff, in fact all the source stories are on the SCP wiki (SCP's pretty good about keeping copyright in the hands of authors, so qntm could publish TINAD while only omitting the few things they didn't write themselves)
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