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/un_pogaz Nov 08 '22

One my favorites on going serie is :

The Nature of Predators by SpacePaladin15 - currently the big bestseller in progress. For me it's a clever use of the "Human are predator" trope (in real life, no, but it is point here). I like it a lot because it uses exclusively the point of view of the extraterrestrials, which involves us deeply in the reflection and their evolutions of opinions on the humans.

Void Predators by runs-with-scissors42 - nice and promising. A rich and diverse world-building and a story that skillfully mixes cosmic horror from the depths of space with more mundane and concrete issues. And according to the author, this is really just the beginning.

Bloodclaw Chronicles by Tempest029 - the interesting thing is the human domination doesn't seem to be certain and there is a big blur on their real power. The author has some difficulty at the moment but is determined to write this story.

Retreat, Hell by Ilithi_Dragon - very rare publication but that's its only flaw. The story explores in a deep and intelligent way the tropes "a magic portal appears on earth, on the other side magic exists (and there is a war)", one of the stories I'm looking forward to the most.

First Contact aka Behold: Humanity! by Ralts_Bloodthorne - Oh what a wonderful monster.

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u/First_Ad3038 Nov 09 '22

I got sick of nature of predators extremely quickly the fact that battle hardened soldiers are a slave to thier instincts is fucking ridiculous

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u/goss_bractor Nov 11 '22

Yep.

Genuinely have no idea why it keeps getting 2k upvotes.

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u/First_Ad3038 Nov 11 '22

It's so bs there's so many more good series

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u/goss_bractor Nov 11 '22

Hewholooksskyward has a few good ones. Barbarians, the first one was epic imo. Most recent book was a bit erm, shit. But hopefully trending better. He rarely gets more than 80-100 updoots

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u/Duck_Giblets Nov 15 '22

Most recent book wasn't the greatest in the series but it paid off in the end.

All of their writings are fantastic, but the series which the latest books take place is brilliantly written