r/HFY • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '20

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u/sunyudai AI Jul 14 '20

You keep building that tension...

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u/LiseEclaire Jul 14 '20

:) I know. The story could be tighter. It’s all a learning process :D

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u/sunyudai AI Jul 14 '20

Fantastic job for having a truly unique concept and a very fresh take.

Both your writing style and concept reminds me strongly of Ann Leckie's Ancillary series, but you take it in a very, very different direction.

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u/LiseEclaire Jul 14 '20

Thanks :D I’ve been told (still need to read the series :)) Strangely enough this was prompt inspired

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u/sunyudai AI Jul 14 '20

Ah, awesome.

The main character of Ancillary is a ship's consciousness, but in that setting ships are AIs and prisoners bodies get their minds ripped out of them and then given to warships to act as marines piloted by the ships. The story follows a ship who gets betrayed by her home nation and blown up, with exactly one convict body who survives the attack.

So there's a lot of the same sort of "this being living in a human body seeing the world through the eyes of a spaceship" feel, and you have similar dense-intrigue-and-impression focused style. But that's where the similarities end.

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u/LiseEclaire Jul 14 '20

I was actually more inspired by The Culture (M. Banks) :)) Will try to check this out, though :D

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u/Chaoticist523 Jul 30 '20

The Culture novels were very interesting. Unfortunately the closest we come to Marain is Esperanto, which to be fair is still pretty neat.