Station Cores Complete Compilation
A Dungeon Core Epic Books 1 through 5
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Station Cores Complete Compilation
Acheter pour 33,99 $
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Narrateur(s):
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Miles Meili
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Auteur(s):
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Jonathan Brooks
Contains all five books in the Station Cores series:
- The Station Core - Book 1
- The Quizard Mountains - Book 2
- The Guardian Guild - Book 3
- The Kingdom Rises - Book 4
- The Other Core - Book 5
In addition, there are some bonuses:
- Hand-drawn maps (admittedly done by me without much artistic talent) that I used to help me write the series
- A fun 12,000-word short story that combines the Dungeon World and Station Cores universes.
Milton Frederick was originally abducted from his apartment to help defend one batch of pacifistic aliens called The Collective against another set of homicidal aliens called Heliothropes...but he never quite made it that far. Instead, during the process where his human consciousness was ripped from his body and inserted into a massive metal contraption called a Station Core, the ship that he was being transported on blew up and he was sent hurtling through space.
Crash-landing on an unknown planet with just a foot-and-a-half tall, foul-mouthed, nanite-formed AI guide called ALANNA to tell him what happened, Milton has to come to terms with his new existence as a giant metal egg, defend his hazardously-in-need-of-repair outer shell from the dangerous local wildlife (including blood-thirsty squirrels), and manage the unique radiation spewing from his damaged internal reactor - all while figuring out how the heck to get off the planet.
All of his work building a “dungeon” underground, defending it with makeshift traps, and filling it with small Combat Units may work well enough against the random beasts wandering around, but they’re next to useless when something else even more dangerous shows up knocking on his door: people. Not humans, of course, but the local equivalent - Proctans - who are similar enough to Milton’s original species...though with one major difference.
They all have unique special abilities that looks suspiciously like “magic”.
However, there is an even bigger threat that looms on the horizon not only for Milton, but all the Proctans as well....
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Good story
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it was also nice that there were no massive Cliffhangers; I didn't have to stay up for an extra 5 hours to assuage anxiety about the outcomes. they weren't obvious, but I also wasn't a bundle of nerves because I clearly see that it would work out well, even when I couldn't see how it would.
All in all, 10 out of 10, very well done. I look forward to future works and have already started the dungeon crafting books.
a great story
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Great entry into LitRPG
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omg stats
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It took me a couple of tries to even get over the first few chapters. There is a love of stats for stats sake alone. But as those stats only exist to put the character on the plot rails at the start and then rarely come up as to why this smarter path isn’t an option.
Book two has a chapter that’s cut into 11 parts because the stat blocks are their own chapter so you can skip them. But damn, skipping six times in a 25 minute (without the stats otherwise an hour long chapter) is annoying even with how easy it is to do on an iPhone. The later books have fewer individual breaks but they go on for longer.
One more note on the stats. The numbers not only don’t mean anything but are often illogical to the point of kicking me out of the story. I am fairly certain that the biological cost of making one characters clothing cost more than 60 squirrels, maybe even as much as 400 squirrels as I write this review many many chapters later. (I am not going back to check.)
And math doesn’t work as the author thinks it does. A reactor giving out 300% power isn’t one running on overdrive but rather its default state? Then using 5% of that power means, what exactly? That it’s using 15% of the 300% or that is 5% out of the 300%?
Then we come to the science. Or rather the might as well be dream logic magic reality. The cold laser was the straw that broke me on this point. But that’s very early on and the tech and physics just get worse. And that’s not even accounting how the AI made of nanites and the brain inside a computer have to communicate through Spoken Words that can be overheard by even random animals walking by. (Sure that changes later but as they are literally heard in the first book I still want to rant about how this was bad.)
Especially as the bad science is used as a hobble to limit so much of what the character can or should be able to do. The nanites can’t fix you up, but can after you ‘level’ because programming reasons. They also can only fix your drones as they level because reasons. You may have taken 98% damage to your reactor, giving it %2 efficiency, but that isn’t noticeable at all until later.
And because the science is so bad when it becomes radiation causes x-men style mutations so magic becomes a thing. Nearly just gave up on the book at that point too.
It follows on that basic technology levels are also all over the map. The low tech new to magic (because radiation) society have steam engines but plumbing is a new rare tech?
It hurts as so much of this world doesn’t make sense if you think on it for even a moment. The MC gets ‘quests’ to do things, which then improve his stats and power. Standard for the genre. But the quests are coming from the MC for himself and he doesn’t game these things… especially as the power they give him he can’t just ‘fix’ himself because reasons.
I don’t like the MC. There was never a ‘‘save the cat” moment to get us on his side before the adventure began. So we have a whiny roommate who lives by playing MMOs and selling loot. And is such a depressing, near cowardly to make sure he doesn’t just steamroll the early problems, unlikable character.
So yeah. I bought this and I regretted it early on. It’s a bad Isekai power fantasy in which the limitations on the MC are illogical and then overcome because sure. Plus at points it feels more like bad fanfic of another work with some characters suddenly having a chapter being super competent and written to be awesome cool. The sort of just too much that some fanfic heavily dip into, if you have read some of the worst of that genre too.
It doesn’t help that the last impression of the book is a short story with these characters meeting the authors other characters in that cringey fanfic way of writing about your favourite authors two properties crossing and both have to be super cool and just so awesome.
I feel bad for the narrator. This will be a once and never again book for me but the reader had to go through this book with enough care not to miss anything.
This is an example of everything I dislike in gamelit
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