In the (wonderful) novel The Postmortal the cure for aging and most disease is discovered... right around now.
Civilization as we know it doesn't make it to 2100.
As far as the immortality story is important to your world building you should give it a read (Also because I love the book and recommend it whenever possible)
Apocalypse: Generic System by Macronomicon (me)
Kind of a poke at the old spear-chucker and punch-wizard. Most people seem to like it.
I've read them in Spanish. But this one should be it Amazon
Nobody knows.. but here’s a MUST READ book where the author takes a good stab at a guess. Postmortal
One thing I really liked about the future with Postmortal humans is the idea of real life Trolls. They paint themselves green and wreak havoc on the immortals. Oh you just got the cure for mortality? Well they throw acid in your eyes and now you’re blind while you live for ever.
That’s just one example. Don’t wanna spoil it all. This book really is an easy and amazing read, highly advise.
Apocalypse: Generic System MC has to get the Squad together to survive the tutorial. An assassin, a swinger couple and a necromancer weeb walk into a bar.
Apocalypse: Generic System fits your broad specifications.
Written by me, so take this with a grain of salt.
Actual world, Mc hyperspecs magic, telekinesis + a little extra that makes it a thinky kind of character.
Decent sized group of unique characters attempt to get through the Impossible Tutorial...by cheating.
Generally well received.
Look below, OP. There should be a "Frequently bought together"
The first, Tales from the Loop, is on Amazon. The second one, Things from the Flood (formerly Swedish Machines, Lonely Places) is backer-only, I believe.
He's released a couple fantastic art books that goes more into the backstory. Stuff is still pretty vague but it does a great job of building the world.
Here's the Amazon link for the first of the two: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1624650392/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ouRNxbPPQ0NVQ
The 2033 one is a thing, I have it. You can buy it on amazon here.
Thanks! I didn’t like the covers of them either, (hence why I have two 2034s) I like the gas mask covers. I picked 2033 up on amazon, and I’ve seen a really cool 2034 cover that goes perfectly with the 2033 seen in the picture, and as far as I know the 2035 is the only cover for it, but it does go in line with the rest. Really like the art styles used!
Edit: Here’s a link to the 2033 I have!
Metro 2033: First U.S. English edition (METRO by Dmitry Glukhovsky) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1481845705/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_UukEBbPFMGABQ
It's not based on the RPG in that sense. Both the RPG and the series are based on the original art book:
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Loop-Simon-St%C3%A5lenhag/dp/1624650392
I don't have this book myself, so I can't give exact details, but:
The art book came first, it's an art book but with some story or narrative elements. (As I said, I don't have it, so I'm just going by the above description.)
There was then a kickstarter to turn it into an RPG.
The new Amazon series is, afaik, based on the original art book again, not the RPG.
You motivated me. Author is a pseudonym "Macronomicon"
But here the first book is on the Kindle store. Relatively short, and only 4 books published so far (in the last 2 years), but I'm glad you brought it up because now I want to reread them.
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Recently been reading more of Qi=MC2, fun little sciency cultivation transmigration story. Currently on hiatus, but it's been a while since I last caught up so got a good number of chapters to read.
Listening to Macronomicon's Systems of the Apocalypse series (sorry, 'The Stitched Worlds' now) and it hasn't stopped impressing me yet. On book three already, gonna run out soon. Definitely in contention as one of my top fav sysapoc series to date.
You should check out The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Unsure if it fits your futuristic setting, and its more sci-fi. But the story and the storytelling are both pretty compelling.
I would recommend stitched worlds by Macronomicon. It's a pretty good series! I guess there was some sort of lawsuit over the original series name so that's why it's calles apocalypse and stitched worlds.
>Stitched Worlds
Didn't even know that was the series name and got excited that it was a new series I didn't know about. Apocalypse: Generic Systems is what I know it as, and its brilliant!
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I haven't tried Shared Insanity yet, I should at some point.
Did you ever read a book called Wool? Has FO overtones, and it was going to me a TV show at one point, but it never happened. Cannot recommend the book and its sequels enough.
Yo for book recs, if you like stuff like Dune and Sci-Fi/speculative fiction in general, I'd go with the Oryx and Crake trilogy by Margaret Atwood.
Super fun, interesting, and a pretty light read relative to the genre.
Basically is the dystopian fallout from a post-bioengineering world gone wrong, mostly ruined by Big Corp. Blade Runner but with natural lifeforms instead of synthetic androids.
This is way better than her Handmaid's Tale, IMO.
One Second After (A John Matherson Novel, 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765356864/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Y1REDHDF1EZZ0AC139P5
Get this book and you will understand. Humans today have LITERALLY 0 idea how to exist without electricity. Even people that study this and think they know, really don’t know. The fuel runs out. The food runs out. The water runs out. The medicine runs out.
I'm not familiar with K.J. Parker, but you may enjoy The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (https://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/1597801585)
While this certainly leans heavily in science fiction, the world and tech seemed fantasy enough to me. I rarely read science fiction but this hit the right spot.
Great series. But it is not really strategic. It is more opportunity. But he tries to target the opportunities. Its a great series one of my favorites but this mechanic starts after book and is not the core of the plot.
Apocalypse: Generic System, by Macronomicon, is fantastic and starts with a tutorial. Four books in the series so far, and all are quality. That said, he chooses the Impossible difficulty tutorial, so its a rough time. The payoff is worth it though imo, the MC has a really interesting class and is actually smart and strategic in what he does.
They had exactly this in Blindsight. The main thing that helps us is that predators never eat their prey to extinction, for obvious reasons. And the only way to avoid that is to maintain a lot more prey animals than predators. (There’s actually a mathematical formula for how big both populations need to be, called Lotka-Volterra predator-prey equations.)
In the book, it turns out that we accidentally killed them off despite them being much smarter than us, because we tended to group together and build things, but they never developed a society or had to develop technology, and by an accident of evolution they had epileptic seizures when they saw right angles (crucifix glitch—turns out a dim memory of them is where our vampire myths came from).
In the book we bring them back to life to help with certain things because of their intelligence, and we think we can use the “crucifix glitch” to keep them under control despite them being so much more intelligent. 😬
Oh man, read Blindsight by Peter Watts. He has humanity revive a creature that was the basis for our vampire myths. In his book, it was actually a creature that evolved to hunt and eat humans. They’re stronger than us, faster than us, and much smarter than us. They’re better at navigating extremely complex scenarios, which is why we brought them back from extinction despite them still wanting to eat us. But they also don’t form societies so they never had the scientific progress that we had, which depends on our culture. They also by chance never evolved to deal with right angles (as an accident of evolution—the “crucifix glitch”), so we accidentally killed them off when we started living in buildings instead of caves, despite us being the obviously inferior prey animal.
If anyones looking for a new book..
Reading it now, it’s 🔥
Plot: one night all the the stars just vanish 😯
if there’s a weight loss club I guess we can have a sci-fi book club right
I liked Apocalypse Generic System. It's got a fairly neat way that magic works, and the main character does quite a bit of brainstorming/manipulation to end up with his power set. The ending wasn't my favorite but it's a long book and there are two more in the series that I haven't read yet. Personally, I had a lot of fun with this book when I read it.
https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Generic-System-Systems-Book-ebook/dp/B08PW28MKC
This is Apocalypse generic system. It started on RR but has 2-3 books on kindle right now. link
I think the story might be finished after this last arc, because he has started a new story on his patreon.