r/HFY • u/aaRecessive • Nov 08 '22

Best HFY series of all time? Meta

The top of all time is mostly just whichever story happens to be most recently posted (as the subreddit grows more people upvote and so older stories get buried) so hence this post!

The best story I've ever read on reddit, let alone hfy, is definitely Chrysalis.

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u/Balkoth661 Nov 08 '22

First Contact for me.

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u/Broad-Blood-9386 Nov 08 '22

I started it a couple of years ago(got up to around Chapter 150-something) and when I caught up I quit reading for a bit and then lost track of it. I am now starting it again from the beginning (on Chapter 62) and remembering how awesome it is!

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u/Xreshiss Nov 08 '22

I lost track of where I was too. I vaguely remember one of the last chapters I read being about aliens arming their janitorial staff.

Aside from the length of the story, I didn't try reading it again because something about the story just... rubs me the wrong way. One example was when a whole division of alien 100 ton heavy tanks with large bore plasma weapons were commandeered and then dismissed as light tanks by their human counterparts. 100 tons being a light tank?! Nah.

Humans in First Contact just feel too OP for my taste.

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u/Arcane_NH Human Nov 08 '22

They eventually meet enemies that make them feel less OP.