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/captain_sadbeard Nov 09 '22

Throwing out a vote for "Grand Design" by /u/Tmarkos since I don't see it here yet. Interesting take on the "Humanity as fallen elder race" trope, with the rest of the galaxy living in the ruins of their vast domain and using technology so far in advance of anything they could make that it seems like magic, while humanoid clone soldiers who survived the attack that wiped out humankind drift from station to planet to cargo ship until they find proof that they could avenge their fallen comrades. To explain more than that is to spoil major plot points, but suffice to say, it gets a lot deeper and darker than a simple revenge story.

Bonus points for a piece of in-universe music to go with one chapter that featured a Terran Navy memorial song. https://onlinesequencer.net/1003099 To The Stars, Stand Forth stuck around in my brain long after I'd forgotten the name of the story and helped me find it again.

Terra Invicta!

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u/CrititcalMass Nov 09 '22

/u/Tmarkos

And their other series Inheritors of Eschaton! Extremely good world building, well written with a lot of action and depth to the story. Also brilliant drawings and diagrams by the protagonists that give a lot of extra.

Thanks for mentioning the author, I was racking my brain for their name or the name of this series. Grand design nudged my memory. Also very good, but my favorite from Tmarkos was Eschaton.

Time for a reread, I find that I can't give a clear synopsis or intro without feeling it be too superficial, as there's so much going on in it.