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Saturday, 3 March 2018
quote [ The unwritten rules that govern the fights and outright wars between ‘capes’ have been amended: everyone gets their second chance. The world ended two years ago, and as humanity straddles the old world and the new, there aren’t records, witnesses, or facilities to answer the villains’ past actions in the present.
---- Ward is the second work in the Parahumans series, and reading Worm first is strongly recommended. A lot of this won’t make sense otherwise and if you do find yourself a fan of the universe, the spoilers in Ward will affect the reading of the other work. Ward is not recommended for young or sensitive readers. ] Previous post of the original: http://www.sensibleendowment.com/entry.php/1086
Also, the Glow-worm chapters were a teaser event leading up to Worm 2. They aren’t required reading but offer flavour and additional angles by which to view certain characters. They take the form of forum posts, chat conversations and emails. They’re best described as a kind of a post-epilogue, pseudo-prologue bridge between the series. Those who read them on the Worm site shouldn’t feel the need to read them again – they’re included here for convenience’s sake, with a few readability improvements. If you’re not interested or find this hard to read, jump to Chapter 1 using the main link. Lastly, there is an audiobook of the first webserial Worm, clocking in at 179 hours, and can be found here:
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spaceloaf said @ 9:20am GMT on 3rd Mar
I really enjoyed Worm. I'll have to check this out.
It really nailed how intelligent people with super powers could work together in elaborate ways to be really effective. This is something that I feel modern superhero stories are seriously lacking. |
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cb361 said @ 10:51am GMT on 3rd Mar
I didn't get through it. I kept expecting it to finish, and found it kept going. That's a problem with online text compared to a novel - you can't see how many pages are left. And ultimately, I suppose I wasn't enjoying it enough to not care.
I've never got my head around that level of school violence either. I was a pretty nerdy child, and hated my school years. But actual physical bullying, as opposed to run-of-the-mil psychological was incredibly rare. Does that really happen in American schools? I guess I couldn't relate. |
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Dienes said @ 3:12pm GMT on 3rd Mar
[Score:1 Informative]
I can tell you from personal experience as a kid as well as from consulting in schools as an adult - yes. Yes it does, and it can be way worse than what's in Worm. Schools are shit at preventing it and shit at handling it when it does happen.
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HoZay said @ 4:26pm GMT on 3rd Mar
I thought the teachers did the bullying & violence in English schools.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 5:33pm GMT on 3rd Mar
[Score:1 Underrated]
When we grew up and went to school there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could.
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spaceloaf said @ 5:13am GMT on 4th Mar
That's fair. I do think it takes a while to hit its stride.
It's basically a slow escalation where the conflicts continually get more and more epic. At some point, it becomes really impressive how they use their middling powers to defeat practically omnipotent beings. But it takes a while to get there. |
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Dienes said @ 3:11pm GMT on 3rd Mar
I am so fucking stoked!
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Menchi said @ 12:30am GMT on 4th Mar
Glow-worm: "S confirmed alive and well! It's so great to 'see' her again."
Ward: "Oh crap, S is a major character. What terrible things are going to happen to her?" |
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The original web-serial was posted here and is around 1.7 million words long, roughly 10 novels in length.