⭐ Beneath ⭐ an ⭐ Unforgiving ⭐ Sky ⭐
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Description
"My mission is to save the human race and die in the process."
A one-shot I wrote a while back about what happens after we end our world.
Cover image taken from Wikimedia Commons.
Information
- Status
- Completed
- Year
- 2022
- Author
- Slifer274
Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 4.7/ 5.0
- Followers
- 20
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- 2,194
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Community Reviews(4)
- CardcaptorRLH85Royal Road★★★★★ 5.0This was a brutally honest take on how someone would feel if they knew that they were going to die for the greater good. It's short so I don't feel comfortable talking too much about it to avoid spoilers.
The style of going for diary/log entries I is an excellent choice for this kind of story and my opening sentence should tell you that I truly enjoyed the story itself. I didn't notice any grammatical errors (if any existed before, they've been fixed) and even the world itself seemed like a character (even if it was more of an antagonistic one).
All in all, I greatly enjoyed this earlier work from an author whose later works I'm already enjoying. - MK bk-201Royal Road★★★★★ 5.0A short story with entries to a diary on a suicide mission, no posibility of survival, posting entries each more hopeless than the one before, knowing the hope of making it its slim at best, as she questions if humanity is even worth saving after the disaster it has caused.
- kleptomaticRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0This short story that manages to pack so much of everything good in a story into a series of diary entries.
The entries feel personal to what's happening, and despite how little writing there actually is the length and contents of some journal entries get across the urgency and other components of the mood.
It's brutal and it's a great story. - KobayashiRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5Slifer made a challenge to leave an advanced review. I replied with "BET". Here we are.
Overall, I like the perspective given and the focus on the fact that quite literally everything is f**ked and there's nothing that can be done. The very attempt of preservation is pointless and yet humans can't help but to chase it. I liked how it was really thought-provoking and made you wonder and the open-ended diary format really puts the reader in that perspective.
No issues on grammar, nothing obvious but I'm also horrible with grammar.
The vagueness of the story definitely sells the theme; keeping it personal with the reader, making it seem a bit like this is the reader's own diary. The vagueness makes it even more real since many civilians caught in an unending nuclear war will have many questions but no answers, maybe even no desire to get those answers.
The characters, including the narrator, do feel really personal and organic to an extent. A touch of shallowness in their motives but who wouldn't in similar circumstances? What tomorrow could you hope to achieve if that tomorrow was no different from today? That acknowledgement that this is a one-way road is definitely a good theme here.
Overall, it was an interesting read and very thought provoking. I have similar thoughts in my head with a theme in my own fiction and this helped set some of those themes in motion. A classic thought process about the horizon, the tomorrow that may never come, the tomorrow that may come but you will never see it. Kind of like Vauthry's quote from FFXIV; "what good is a paradise to [the people] if it is a thousand years in the makin? Or even a hundred?"