First Contact

 Impossibly well written, novel and nostalgic, Ralts Bloodthorne weaves a tale of the far future, humanity beset on all sides by ancient and hostile civilizations, making friends and breaking things in either order. Told from the shifting perspectives of the universe as a whole rather than a small main cast, when humanity achieves sufficiently advanced technology, why not theme your own personal starship after your favorite story? Serious and silly, hard sci fi and tech that might as well be magic, find out what happens when someone declares war against a culture that cracked immortality and uses it to full-contact larp your favorite game of choice. One way or another, everyone's in for a ride!

Ralts Bloodthorne is an awesome writer and is telling one Awesome Tale. It is a must read, funny, terrifying and thought provoking. The characters in this story are well thought out and great. The style is very good with very good pacing. Grammar and some mispelling needs a little work but done mostly well.

This story hits you like a TON of bricks!!!

:D CHEERS (c)

For those unfamiliar with the term HFY, "Humanity, f*** yeah!" focuses on the strengths of what it means to be human. The best parts. The monkey brain that is always trying to figure out how to do something new, or see patterns that even supercomputers struggle with, or develops concepts like mercy, love, or compassion.

Oh, and illogical, manic determination not to give up, even when any rational sentient would understand the only thing left is to make peace with nonexistence, go into shock and quietly die. That too.

First Contact is primarily told from dozens of non-human POVs that get chapters just long enough to tell their unique story (although some get to come back in multiple chapters). It starts off light and amusing before the plot drops like a dinosaur-killer asteroid.

Truthfully, the grammar score should be marked down to a 4 because the story needs an editor to help with typoes, but they don't take away from the story and the author created something so amazing that anything less than 5 stars overall would be a disservice. Since I can't buy it, the least I can do is hit the Donate button.

 Men this is so fucking good 😍😍 if you love sci fi then you have to read this . And the reference of all the old sci fi show is aswome 

 I've followed this story on Reddit from almost the beginning and can't recommend it enough to anyone who enjoys a WIDE range of deep characters, as well as an array of well done plots. There are so many nods to over forty years worth of assorted media that FC needs it's own chiropractor, and virtually all of them have been well done. Even the "slower" parts have their own payoffs.

There are plenty of typos and grammatical errors, plus the occasional duplicate word here and there, but our Mad Angel makes the keyboard go BRRRTT and the errors worthwhile. Enjoy the ride and HERE. WE. GO!

This writing is seriously, thoroughly, delightful mad. It's violently likable and toxicly fresh. Blows my mind, rly. Insta favourite.

I don't think I have the right words to describe the breadth and depth of this story. It's everything right that ready player one attempted, there's lots of all kinds of humor, there's drama, action (so much action!), eerie horror, just so much.

Can't recommend this enough, super glad it's coming here so I can share it with non-redditors. The best part is that it was written so fast. Still waiting on door of stone but this epic came out in 3 months and it's still going. 

well done on almoust everything. get's you hooked instantly and as the story goes on it never fails to make you enjoy the story and charecters. higly recomended to anyone to read  

This is the first anthology I've read in a while. In almost every chapter we are introduced to new characters who do not stick around. The plot is there but it's obscured by about 3500 years of pop culture references that are incoherent. It's most certainly a brave attempt which is why it has such a high style score.

The grammar needs quite a bit of work. There are numerous minor irritating errors in every chapter.

There's a story, which is kinda fascinating but instead of keeping it mysterious the author has decided to use *sigh* narration to reveal the epic backstop in a very tired way. The plots basically: Ancient evil, narcissistic, world torturing and destroying Galactus type aliens vs Humans who make Star Trek look like they're in the Middle Ages. Who knows who is gonna win (sarcasm)?

Characters get the lowest score because they don't stick around for development. We get their backstory, which is nice, what they're doing aaaand that's it.

It's the best anthology I've read, but tbh the bar isn't very high.

Really good story, but skip the Daxin parts, those aren't really interesting.