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Not content with a Goth GF, the male lead of The Golden Oecumene found an Emo GF.
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Shout out to The Golden Oecumene for so many different things, both good and bad:
The setting is way, way in the future, but the MMC lives as a relative ascetic, so his viewpoint is comprehensible. Once every few pages, the narrator mentions some aspect of future society that the main character isn’t involved in, and that’s so weird it could be the premise of a sci-fi novel in and of itself. Most of the time, it never comes up again because it’s not relevant to the MMC’s journey, but new potential premises just keep coming up at approximately the same pace across three books!
Ethics is solvable, and any sufficiently smart AI will solve it and come to the same ethical conclusions. Coincidentally, they’re the same ethical conclusions the author came to. (In retrospect, it’s unsurprising he eventually went Catholic.)
The FMC’s entire life is a sick joke. This is not a figure of speech.
The MMC is vulnerable to Hard Men Making Hard Choices, and could be convinced to join the villain that way. The FMC is vulnerable to unabashed idealism, and could be convinced to join the villain that way. They can’t both be convinced at once, because they notice the contradictions.
The part where it turns into a standalone horror story for a chapter and becomes absolutely terrifying.
The part where the MMC thinks there’s no conspiracy after all, and he’s been gaslighted as part of a much more mundane plot. Then the FMC’s horse explodes into a cyborg abomination and tries to kill him, and he decides maybe there’s a conspiracy after all.
Seriously, I love this series so much. I’m against giving money to Catholic McRacist, but check for it in your local library. (I call this the Ender’s Game protocol.)
The setting is way, way in the future, but the MMC lives as a relative ascetic, so his viewpoint is comprehensible. Once every few pages, the narrator mentions some aspect of future society that the main character isn’t involved in, and that’s so weird it could be the premise of a sci-fi novel in and of itself. Most of the time, it never comes up again because it’s not relevant to the MMC’s journey, but new potential premises just keep coming up at approximately the same pace across three books!
Ethics is solvable, and any sufficiently smart AI will solve it and come to the same ethical conclusions. Coincidentally, they’re the same ethical conclusions the author came to. (In retrospect, it’s unsurprising he eventually went Catholic.)
The FMC’s entire life is a sick joke. This is not a figure of speech.
The MMC is vulnerable to Hard Men Making Hard Choices, and could be convinced to join the villain that way. The FMC is vulnerable to unabashed idealism, and could be convinced to join the villain that way. They can’t both be convinced at once, because they notice the contradictions.
The part where it turns into a standalone horror story for a chapter and becomes absolutely terrifying.
The part where the MMC thinks there’s no conspiracy after all, and he’s been gaslighted as part of a much more mundane plot. Then the FMC’s horse explodes into a cyborg abomination and tries to kill him, and he decides maybe there’s a conspiracy after all.
Seriously, I love this series so much. I’m against giving money to Catholic McRacist, but check for it in your local library. (I call this the Ender’s Game protocol.)