A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age

Re:A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age by qznc on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:47PM (#16016907)

People who love this genre hang out at https://www.reddit.com/r/rational They call it "rational fiction".

There is quite some overlap with fan fiction, because people like to "fix" non-rational fiction. Eliezer Yudkowsky and his take on Harry Potter is the prime example. I can also recommend Alexander Wales who also made original fiction.

Probably the oldest related work is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.

Another name mentioned often in this genre is Brandon Sanderson and especially his Mistborn series, but I have not read it personally.

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Re:A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age by jaibot on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:11PM (#16017641)

Alexander Wales' rationalist take on Superman, "The Metropolitan Man", is great.

Text: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10360716/1/The-Metropolitan-Man

Free audiobook: http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/?page_id=1705

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Re:A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age by foobarian on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:31AM (#16023025)

I can't thank you enough for this pointer. Just what I had in mind :-)

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Re:A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age by qznc on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:44PM (#16024751)

A slightly better pointer might be the wiki of the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/wiki/index

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