The Outer Sphere
by Macronomicon
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- Traumatising content
Garth Daniels is down on his luck, running from his life in a quiet little town in the middle of America when our universe is co-opted into a war between an unstoppable race of reality-hopping monsters that feeds on the flesh of living creatures, and a conglomeration of thousands of realities, nested inside each other like a matroska doll.
We're the new layer.
These monsters, the Kipling, can only be defeated in a reality with very specific physics, otherwise they are unstoppable, and so Earth's universe has been assimilated to give us a fighting chance.
Garth must set aside everything that he knows, and think fast to adapt to the new laws of nature if he wants to survive.
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Funny alian invasion SYSTEM
This was a good read(I read to chapter 76),funny with a nice twist on the alian invasion SYSTEM thing tho the 'im a lefty from California thats hates on white poeple' thing was annoying.

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Really liked it but...
This story is pretty cool. And the magic system is fairly in depth and entertaining. Love the characters and their familys. But.... as the story goes on the author just starts jumping to other POV's. And it gets really frustrating. At least for me. Had to give it up. If you dont mind frequent POV switches this is a good one.

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Liked it.
I agree with zigman on this story. I liked it a lot. It’s a bit zany, arguably SciFi meets cultivator. There is a time slip unit which discombobulated some readers but would be unremarkable to an SFfan.
Don’t let the negative reviews bias you - I think they just didn’t “get it”. This is a fun read.

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FUN. FUN. FUN. Especially after chapter 100
Reviewed at: Chapter 157: Dirty Deeds
Title says it all. This is FUN. Remember FUN?
After chapter 100 there is a massive shift, but it is clear the author didn't forget or abandoned what happened before. There are CLEAR hints that a lot of things transpired and not all is as it seems.
But what happens when your MC doesn't have the Hero Shield? He gambles, and gambles, and gets owned. Chances.
Unlike other works where the author was clearly bored with his creation and hit the reset button, this one shows promise. A lot of it.
For the curious ones :

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awesome
Up to chap 100 .. just keeps on gettn better

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I'm really enjoying it!
It has some minor issues, but i really enjoy it ^-^

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story is slightly illogical
First five chapters are crap. Then it gets much better. Character development and plot becomes interesting and readable.
. All in all, There are parts of the story that don't make sense but the sex scenes make up for it. Almost feels like two different people writing this story. Noticed that the caffeinated chapters are more interesting.

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Excellent Read that is hilarious
Reviewed at: Chapter 141: Wingman
I really like this story as it contains a lot of the LitRPG elements combined with a main character who is smart and funny. The MC is is relatable and smart while also being unorthodox and cunning. There are only a few stories that have made me actually laugh out loud on this site, but this one has me rolling in laughter.
That all being said I found the story line great until there was a sharp left turn at chapter 100. I won't go into it as others have already commented on it. However, after I kept going the new story arc is growing on me.
The grammar and punctuation is a bit spotty at times, but nothing too distracting.
Keep up the good work!
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Books and hooks.
Reviewed at: Chapter 187: Midlife Crisis
There are few stories that can get me hooked but this one succeeded beyond my wildest expectations. I'm writing this review as of chapter 58 so for those reading this please accept that there will be spoilers.
Normally the story of a system coming to a world and making every piece of tech useless so that people get to rely on magic and prevent the militaries from nuking the demon lords into oblivion would be antithesis to me as it's basically just the author to show us his own opinion of how would human nature develop when the pillars of our society fell which gets boring after a while but this story does things differently. I also love the fact that guns still work and prove to be useful, at least in the beginning.
In this story electricity no longer operates but has the potential to do so with the right applications, the Internet can be replaced and the creature comforts can be remade and even improved upon with magic which are all good things in my book but the most important factor I saw into this was that Humanity's achievemnts like the cities full skyscrapers remained. They weren't destroyed nor butchered but still stand as a monolith of what human science could do which is something quite apealing to my sensibilities.
I won't discuss grammar as I'm not adept enough at it to do so.
I like your writting style which shows us enough to form ourselves an idea without being overbearing, also as a side note I absolutely love the way you made the Wilson Mono/Dialogues go and how other people react to them.
Now for the main dish , the character and the only part of the story I felt only deserved 4 stars.
I looove Sandy and the way you made her be the bombshell farm girl that had gotten so used to our MC's shenangians she just shrugs at him whenever he does weird stuffs and the new pregnant parts is just the topping on the cake.
Tzetin is weird as a character but in a good way strangely. Normally one would have characters try to better themselves to become upstanding citizens but her case is exactly the opposite in which she is trying to become in the mc's own words a scumbag. Her race is presiposed to becoming goodie 2 shoes and unlike the few stories that try to show it her struggle is not played for laughs but shows jsut how hard it is and the beggining of the consequences to her psyche.
The MC's master(I didn't even bother to rember his name) is an interesting character with some quirks but honestly? I'm not really impressed with him. He is in my eyes just the standard master archetype which came out of nowhere and offered the MC the chance for power and also all but made him an official outlaw for little gain so far from his point of view even if his advice proves useful in time his pressence so far had been naught but a detriment in the long term with his influence giving the MC other enemies. Sure the fact that you added your own twist to his style of OP is good but quite honestly I jsut plain don't like the archetype even if the character itself is good.
The MC, Garth... Well that's a guy after my own heart. He is exactly what I expect people to be when placed int o such situations. He is not a megalomaniac after power and all the fame and women which he earned due to his heaven defying cheat abillity he got for doing nothing of importance but a honest to god human beeing that got given a little cheat to help him around and now tries to make himself a home after he forsake his old one. I can truly relate to the guy because as he is trying to survive,he makes mistakes but succeds desipte them in a believalbe way. His ideas are good and smart and while so far they haven't come to bite him in the ass to much they only reinfoce my point that he is human and you have no idea just how much that improves this story from my perspective.
The side character are good and I love how they don't feel like automatons but almost living, breathing humans which was a nice touch.
All in all I love this story and hope to see more of it.

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A Rush
Reviewed at: Chapter 188: Motivation
Excess-- that's the name of the game in this wonderful scifi system romp. I've truely enjoyed macros writing both in it's quality and proliference.
At first the pacing can be a bit difficult to adjust to, as it's a non-stop rush all the way though and covers a lot of time, but I mean this in the best way possible. Reading macros stories is like 100 mgs of epinephrine mainlined into your brain.
On top of all that, the characters are fun and the story isn't afraid of a little levity. Cheers Macro, your writing is awesome.