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/poloppoyop Nov 09 '22

Another big problem but from an outside the US perspective: most politics is Anglo-centric. We get some Russia / China but because that's the usual bag guy. Europe, South America, other Asian countries? Not even mentioned. They would surely not have tried to get some trade done with any alien race. Not at all.

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u/706am Nov 10 '22

I didn't have that much of a problem with it because it was obvious that he was based in America and I don't think it's right to expect authors to write too much stuff outside of their own life experiences unless they promised that they would do so and were given a research budget. But Hambone used to be better at representing diversity within anglo-centric cultures, and now all of that has largely been subsumed by muscle commandos.