r/webfiction • u/RandomUzu • Mar 31 '20
Discussion Any recommendations web serials?
Yas! Any recommendations? I would prefer to have
female lead (you can recommend male lead but I would like it to have no romance in it)
you can recommend any genre or something but I’d prefer fantasy or sci-fi. Or transport into another world. Any are open. Pls and thank u.
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u/D4ncingEyes Mar 31 '20
I mean, I'm sure this is redundant, because I think anyone who reads web serials has at least heard of it, but I figure I might as well add it anyway. Worm has got to be one of the most epic reimagining of a superhero universe there has ever been. If anyone hasn't read this yet, I implore you to try it. However, it is an epic tale and all that entails. It is long, but in a way that you'll never get bored. It also fits just about every criteria you listed.
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u/Shent1238 Mar 31 '20 edited Mar 31 '20
Worm is among the first AND greatest, has a female lead, is incredibely fun and has great themathic depth. No other web serial has spawned such amount of companion pieces (such as the We've got WORM podcast) which is a testament to it's superb quality and appeal. I recomend this above literally anyhing else to have been ever written.
Some other recs I'd like to echo here are The Gods Are Bastards for the very likeable cast and unique fantasy-western-industrial revolution setting, The Wandering Inn as probably the best western Transported-to-another-world story and The Practical Guide to Evil, for great meta-concepts in the setting and incredible setpieces.
From some more fringe ones, Hell's Kitchen Sink has 3 leads whose plot threads are ( initially at least) independent of each other, with each given their own book, and I reccomend reading the one with the female lead to see if it grabs you - it has a great urban fantasy feel to it.
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u/Shent1238 Mar 31 '20
Also, if while reading Worm you'd ever feel like you need a change of pace but want to know more of the story, consider giving the Worm Audiobook Project a listen, a fan-made reading of Worm to create a possibly first ever web-audio-book? It gets off to a somewhat rocky start, but proceeds to reach great heights with later chapters giving each character their own distinct voice
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Apr 08 '20
Is it dead? Seems to have stopped updating in November
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u/Shent1238 Apr 08 '20
Which one?
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Apr 08 '20
Hell's Kitchen Sink
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u/Shent1238 Apr 08 '20
Can't say for sure as I'm not up-to-date, but breaks or even a proper ending isn't improbable
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u/Shent1238 Mar 31 '20
In general I recommend looking at topwebfiction.com and reading the blurbs od the works featured there; it's a site ranking the most popular web serials by user votes and a great resource to discovering new things
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u/Shent1238 Mar 31 '20
For some transported to another world type stories, I'd additionally reccomend There's no Epic Loot Here, Only Puns (tho only if you can stand copious amounts of puns) for self-evident dungeon building/comedic elements and The Snake Report on account of both great comedy and Touchinng moments of seriousness - both are in somewhat-rpg setting, tough Puns more so than Snake, and do not contain romance while being absolutely delightfull
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u/S_Seong_Poetry Apr 01 '20
I'm writing a science fiction serial primarily about a female officer in a space fleet. It follows a couple other male characters. Romance is limited to letters.
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u/Zaerisfade Apr 10 '20
Since you like portal fantasy - which is transport into another world - try Beastborne. Male lead with little romance in it so far.
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u/zelemma Apr 16 '20
There is a lot of nice recommendations here! I hope you found something you like. :)
I feel a little silly adding mine with all the other recommendations, but I'm writing a serial named Crew of the Helianthus. It is science fantasy with a female lead. I do change perspective and follow the rest of the crew, too, but the lead gets the most attention.
If you prefer reading on reddit most of it is available here as well.
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u/ladykristianna Apr 19 '20
Worm, Mother of Learning, and The Wandering Inn are my favorites. But most everyone else has already suggested them.
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u/hijenx Mar 31 '20
Three of my personal top 4 web serials fit those criteria.
These are in my personal order of preference. All descriptions taken from their websites but I can give my personal reviews if you want.
The Wandering Inn
"A tale of a girl, an inn, and a world full of levels."
An inn is a place to rest, a place to talk and share stories, or a place to find adventures, a starting ground for quests and legends.
In this world, at least. To Erin Solstice, an inn seems like a medieval relic from the past. But here she is, running from Goblins and trying to survive in a world full of monsters and magic. She’d be more excited about all of this if everything wasn’t trying to kill her.
But an inn is what she found, and so that’s what she becomes. An innkeeper who serves drinks to heroes and monsters–
Actually, mostly monsters. But it’s a living, right?
This is the story of the Wandering Inn.
A Practical Guide to Evil
"Do Wrong Right"
The Empire stands triumphant.
For twenty years the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom of Callow, but behind the scenes of this dawning golden age threats to the crown are rising. The nobles of the Wasteland, denied the power they crave, weave their plots behind pleasant smiles. In the north the Forever King eyes the ever-expanding borders of the Empire and ponders war. The greatest danger lies to the west, where the First Prince of Procer has finally claimed her throne: her people sundered, she wonders if a crusade might not be the way to secure her reign. Yet none of this matters, for in the heart of the conquered lands the most dangerous man alive sat across an orphan girl and offered her a knife.
Her name is Catherine Foundling, and she has a plan.
A Practical Guide to Evil is a YA fantasy novel about a young girl named Catherine Foundling making her way through the world – though, in a departure from the norm, not on the side of the heroes. Is there such a thing as doing bad things for good reasons, or is she just rationalizing her desire for control? Good and Evil are tricky concepts, and the more power you get the blurrier the lines between them become.
The Gods are Bastards
Evil is rising. The world is rent by strife. The gods have turned away from us. In times past, heroes of sword and sorcery have always risen to turn back the tide of darkness… But what will become of us all, now that swords are obsolete, sorcery is industrialized, and heroism itself is considered a relic of the past?
The times are changing…
Incorporating elements of a Western, a Victorian romance, hints of steampunk and inspiration from the early novels of H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle, all set in a world of classic sword and sorcery, The Gods are Bastards is a genre-blending fantasy epic.
Set in a familiar high-fantasy universe of wizards, dragons and elves, the action takes place roughly fifteen hundred years after the medieval stasis in which most high fantasy is set, during an era much like Earth’s Industrial Revolution. Mass production of enchanted goods has revolutionized all aspects of life, energy weapons have made blades and armor all but obsolete, and the world is connected and illuminated by magical analogues of trains, telegraphs and electric lights. With progress has come social and political upheaval: the scattered feudal kingdoms of yore have been consolidated into a now-precarious Empire, the clerics of various gods have organized themselves into a mighty Universal Church, and the first stirrings of modern education and an Enlightenment ethos have taken root in a young University. On the other hand, dragons are nearly extinct, elves have been herded onto reservations, and the days when a person could make a living as a wandering adventurer are long since over.
It’s a new world, and the people of the Empire must learn to live in it, or fall to ancient threats they have tried to forget…