If be keen to hear right how you’re defining the genre, especially when the author isn’t obviously a member of the community. I loved worm and read it a couple of years ago, at least a year before I was aware rational fiction was a thing, and don’t recall thinking “wow this seems really rationalist” so much as just “this is fun words go brrrrrrrr”
I think that “intense, fanatical dedication to worldbuilding” + “tons of good problem-solving from our characters, which we can see from the inside” adds up to ratfic for me, or at least “close to ratfic”. Worm delivers both.
Ah, that makes sense. I absolutely adore Fine Structrue and Ra but never considered it ratfic (though I don’t know whether Sam Hughes is hanging in rat circles)
If be keen to hear right how you’re defining the genre, especially when the author isn’t obviously a member of the community. I loved worm and read it a couple of years ago, at least a year before I was aware rational fiction was a thing, and don’t recall thinking “wow this seems really rationalist” so much as just “this is fun words go brrrrrrrr”
I think that “intense, fanatical dedication to worldbuilding” + “tons of good problem-solving from our characters, which we can see from the inside” adds up to ratfic for me, or at least “close to ratfic”. Worm delivers both.
Sounds right to me! I’m reading worth the candle at the moment :)
Ah, that makes sense. I absolutely adore Fine Structrue and Ra but never considered it ratfic (though I don’t know whether Sam Hughes is hanging in rat circles)