She decides to use this power to punch villains in the face instead of, say, saving hundreds of millions of lives by removing pests from fields, rapidly and efficiently pollinating crops, having her bugs kill disease-carrying rats in cities, etc. (See previous bit about magic space worm in head.) Some of these things can be explained -- maybe Bonesaw is into causing pain and fear but doesnt really care about killing lots and lots of people.I read some of Worm last year, and was just reading some more right now (in the last week).
Its good stuff. But I dont quite understand the business model involved. Regards, Faheem Mitha By Faheem Mitha on 2016-04-27 Its also a very dark and story. Tised on 2016-07-30 Ive read Worm, and it is by and far the best superhero setting out there. There are a few issues with the story, but overall those detract very little from the fact that it is extremely compelling. As for the business model, the author makes a living off of writing, and there are constant rumors of TV interest in the work. It probably could have been published and been lumped in with plenty of other books that no one ever hears about despite them being engrossing - I think that the following that this story has is far beyond what traditional media would have gained despite probably being less lucrative financially. Eventually, a big company will have to snap up the IP; the world is just too compelling (and the fanbase extremely dedicated and constantly growing). By Juho on 2016-07-30 Ammo, I certainly dont want to claim that choosing this publishing model was a mistake. After all, there the most likely outcome is that the book wont get published at all. Followed probably by the book being published but not selling enough to make back the advance. Being able to bypass that and build up a fan-base directly is a compelling advantage. The depressing bit was that its hard to imagine a bigger home run for this model than Worm was, but then also having a glimpse into the financials via Patreon and seeing that it just could not be sustainable. Its good to see that in in the two years since this review was written, the Patreon has doubled from 1200 to 2400. ![]() By David K. Storrs on 2016-11-30 My problem with Worm is with the fundamental premise. Wildbow worked backwards, and he did it with a sledgehammer -- he didnt start with theres people with superpowers, what does the world look like, he started with I want a world that feels like the real world with superpowered people who wear spandex and punch each other, how do I justify that The reality of a world with superpowers is that it looks nothing like the real world. Supertech, energy conjured from seemingly nowhere, magical healing -- the world is different as a result of these things. Here are some of the things that Wildbow had to do in order to justify his world: ) Every superhero has a magic space worm in their head that force them to fight instead of using their powers to build infrastructure, etc. Every superhero is mentally damaged. There is only one person who is trying to provide therapy to superheroes, because reasons. Tinker tech cannot be mass produced.except the containment foam, which breaks this rule because reasons. There are giant monsters called Endbringers that periodically destroy centers of population industry so that technological progress is limited. One of these monsters is a precog who is determined to maintain status quo, so if anyone DOES try to use their powers for good, or has a brilliant idea, she will kill them. The solution to Endbringer attacks is get every cape that we can find, regardless of what their powers are and bring them to the site of the attack, because reasons. Theres no strategic planning, no hey, maybe we should try nuking them between attacks, no okay, when Leviathan shows up Bob will toss him in the area with his superstrength and then Alex will fly and carry Kim after him so that she can repeatedly use her make things go faster power to shoot him into orbit. That specific example likely wouldnt work, but it illustrates the point.) ) Capes arent that bright, despite there being capes whose power is literally be smart and know things. For the most part they dont use their powers efficiently until Skitter comes along to teach them how. There are one or two exceptions, but not many.) They also dont look at ways of combining powers. See point above. ) Panacea can (as far as we can tell) do absolutely anything with biology, including creating new species within a few minutes. She is afraid of her powers and refuses to use them for anything other than basic healing -- she wont produce supercrops that could feed the world, she wont produce toxic-waste-eating bacteria, she wont produce plants that filter heavy metals out of groundwater, she wont.the list goes on. Bonesaw is similar to Panacea, except she uses her powers for evil.but only minimal evil. She will vivisect people, but she wont make superplagues that cause mass extinction. Nilbog, another biology warper, is content to stay inside his little quarantined town instead of releasing superspores into the wild to take over the entire country. The protagonist, Taylor aka Skitter, has the power to control insects, invertebrates, etc. She decides to use this power to punch villains in the face instead of, say, saving hundreds of millions of lives by removing pests from fields, rapidly and efficiently pollinating crops, having her bugs kill disease-carrying rats in cities, etc. See previous bit about magic space worm in head.) Some of these things can be explained -- maybe Bonesaw is into causing pain and fear but doesnt really care about killing lots and lots of people.
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