Best HFY Sci-Fi Stories: I Watched Them Fight

[@Darkinu2]

Holy shit, this is a story for the ages. Hats off to the Author

[@DrSigma24-7]

Truth. An outstanding narration and story.

[@josephhyland8904]

Absolutely agree!

[@EmmTshh]

I really liked this one, I specially enjoyed that it wasn't an overpowered humanity that won, but a last effort flip of the coin.

[@month32]

-So you are telling me that those things will come back, even hungrier than before, until we burn all their planets? -Yes. -And that they are unfeeling, violent monsters that just want to eat everything and everyone? -Yes again. -Someone has been reading Heinlein a lot lately it seems. -Who? -Forget about it.

[@howardchambers9679]

Hahahaha! Best comment! I often wonder if today's sci fi fans have actually read the old authors. Someone left a comment about inconsistent science facts being distracting, i suggested they read some EE "Doc" Smith. But then I don't suppose reading an actual paperback is a thing for them anymore. Loved Heinlein back in the day. Still have a couple of his books that haven't fallen apart from rereading.

[@Lupus_Indomitus]

And the aliens ask themselves why they hear exterminatus music in the background all of a sudden

[@month32]

@@howardchambers9679 Wait till they try reading Philip K. Dick...

[@month32]

@@Lupus_Indomitus The flesh is weak, but deeds are forever.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Was thinking more zergs or tyranids.

[@davidwilson9617]

As an epileptic, I find the idea that they practically seized the thing to death hilarious.

[@WendiGonerLH]

Not quite, they put it into a siezure and then shanked it to death while it was still twitching

[@sleeping2696]

Our level of war far out classes our level of technology

[@calumbutter6124]

Possibly tue best HFY I've ever read - and I've read thousands. This is also my fourth time reading it. Thank you author and NN.

[@Nevir202]

Ya, that sounds like humanity. Or more specifically Like Wesley from The Princess Bride. Win by poisoning both glasses and trusting you'll survive lol.

[@krevor4095]

Wesley (The Dread Pirate Robert) didn't just trust. He prepared and built an immunity over time. Why? Just in case.

[@Ben111778]

Knowing more than I should, I'd have to say they had already secrety tested it on both people and one of the swarm they had somehow managed to capture and already knew while building the big bang how it would effect both species. The elites don't tempt Fate, but definitely try to control it!

[@DrSigma24-7]

True; because if you don't survive, it's no longer your problem....

[@anonymouspotato4899]

@@krevor4095 That entire bit was a joke. Iocane powder kills with even the smallest dose. Wesley won by building up an immunity. How do you build up an immunity to a poison...?

[@TheBigMagnet]

"Are you saying we are the only ones to ever win against these things?" I was expecting: "You are the first."

[@wildwikedwanderer1208]

Just in time for lunch. Thanks net. You’re continued work is appreciated

[@mikegann551]

Would love to know what the humans were saying and doing. This is one of the better stories on the net! Excellent story!!

[@stephenmcbride6359]

Great story. Love the human narration. It would be so cool to hear a group of you narrator's get together and do one, like an old radio play.

[@Terran.Marine.2]

It's a fine idea.

[@Ben111778]

Wow! After listening to so many AI broken stories... this was a great one! Minus 1 point for the doubling up of almost the same sentence in the middle of the story... but this story actually had a beginning, middle and understandable end! It had continuity, character development, story telling skills far better than any of the AI stories I've heard!

[@kebbitevoke-5319]

Yea net narrator does sometimes repeat himself but that's usually editing mess ups. He truely reads them out.

[@srslothington]

Net Narrator isn’t AI, he’s an actual guy. If you want another actual person reading stories I recommend AggroSquirrelNarrarates

[@BBCTopgearfan]

If you liked this one, you might like his Audible Book. I am a bit biased. But he has a teaser video of the first few chapters.

[@regiliok]

now i want a part 2 where us and our new space buddy's rip these monsters a new one!

[@spacedragon1175]

I want to see the swarm flee in terror

[@regiliok]

@@spacedragon1175 would be fun

[@TheHighborn]

there is part2 by the author on his reddit edit: this narration included part2

[@Brjskdbeikaheus]

Nice to find an hfy story that’s well written and edited. Great work.

[@martypelletier7122]

I've listened to this story a few times here on this channel and it gets better each and every time. Every time without fail i get choked up hearing it, hats off to the author and to you sir for giving me the ability to feel something again even if its only for a moment.

[@BreadGuy01]

Absolutely riveting story, if there's a next part, I'm all for it!

[@isaacdouglas7826]

Finally, a good hfy that's not a show of bloated ego, but genuine determination (and a smidge of luck)

[@darthrevan4933]

ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END!!!

[@ccrrey6121]

One of the best I ever heard, meant it. Kuddos to author, and amazing narration too👍👍💯

[@scotthinger6397]

Thank you for NOT leaving us hanging!! Now where is the next part?! Please tell me it is comig soon!!!

[@benandrew21]

I'm glad that for once humanity won because of an eleventh-hour ass pull rather than us being so uniquely brilliant/terrible that we just curb stomp whatever pissed us off

[@ballroomdru]

Wow, just wow. Such a good one shot story.

[@erikjrn4080]

Well written, good voice narration, coherent story, a well executed literary narrator device and perspective that actually suited the story, and I could go on. The best storytellers are still human. They're just not being employed by Hollywood, which instead keeps making AI look good.

[@vikingbanana2404]

Man this needs a part 2

[@wesdavis8018]

Great story and great narration. Keep up the good work.

[@theangrygermanlad1328]

The unyielding devourers vs the unyielding devourers. Only difference is that we can use guns, and they cant.

[@dandrewtsinnijinnie4504]

We savor the win and fear

[@ChildOfSisyphus]

Thank You ... A wonderful story to come home from work to. 🌎🚀

[@Seaside_Seanster]

One of the best stories I've heard/read in a while.

[@ded2920]

now this is a humanity fuck yeah story entire story had me on the edge of my seat

[@your_boi_junior4531]

THIS IS GOOD!! amazing love these 20 min storys well still short lol 25-45 min aint short xD

[@dashwhatchamakalit]

Lol we won a flashbang recovery contest with bugs.

[@norneaernourn8240]

So the Geneva Convention do not apply to these monsters... good to know.

[@Terran.Marine.2]

Well, I do hope @Net Narrator finds the time to read the second half of this tale.

[@Edmar_Thorn]

Love it

[@scout.0811]

Oh wow this story was amazing!

[@rossdavies8250]

Cracking good yarn, matey. Keep up the good work...

[@rust5427]

Probably what it's like during the swarm disaster era in HSR

[@stevedixon921]

Well narrated fellow human.

[@mycroft16]

Extremely well written. That was a lot of fun to listen to. Actually, I would gladly pay to watch this movie. Being so far away really contributes to the helpless feeling.

[@wesdavis8018]

Thanks!

[@NetNarrator]

Thank YOU!

[@CitizenValve]

Now….This is a badass story!!!! Bravo!….Bravo!

[@MrZonehawk]

Amazing work! Great tension and pacing!

[@nicholasmunroe8989]

I hope there is a part 2 by the author! I LOVED IT!!

[@Argon1115]

Good Story, good narration. I enjoyed this.

[@Mountain_bonker]

Very nice. Just in time for lunch

[@drewgilbertson]

Zerg go Derp!

[@ekhidna4]

This is top-quality stuff. Loved it.

[@rumandroses2538]

First 5th dimensional entity

[@halogeek6]

greetings mad one! how goes the euclid these eonce?

[@rumandroses2538]

@@halogeek6 sadly it is very moist preventing my dimorphisis

[@halogeek6]

@@rumandroses2538 sounds about right what with the elder hive crying all the time. i mean who makes tear ducts just cry a literal ocean? and for what it doesnt even feel emotion!

[@rumandroses2538]

@@halogeek6 oh it's because if the horngus of the dongfish, gets dry the scungle that connects it to the dillsack shrinks which would make the heteromorphs manifest triggering the earth's bar mitzvah

[@kdmbigpig]

Hey, that's what she said!​@@rumandroses2538

[@wstavis3135]

Absolutely epic! Well done!

[@45Mistuikeidentity]

Time to rip and tear

[@Lupus_Indomitus]

Yep. Go full Warhammer on those biothings ass. They sound an awful lot like tyranids to me.

[@45Mistuikeidentity]

@@Lupus_Indomitus and flood

[@Questor-ky2fv]

WOW!😱 Well done!😃👌👍👏🤸🏻‍♂️

[@aquilifergroup]

Great writing.

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

Excellent story and narration, thank you.

[@greenleafnerfing4749]

certainly a story for the ages

[@johnhenrix3894]

good story. I prpeared coocked and ate pancit and now sitting in my bed just as the final lines are said. Awesome

[@ironwolfF1]

A most excellent story, true HFY in all it's glory. (...I'll accept it as an apology for that earlier story you posted...)

[@Lupus_Indomitus]

You mean horrors of first contact?

[@ironwolfF1]

@@Lupus_Indomitus No, the 'our children are so much wiser than us' ..... pan-sapien BS non-HFY story.

[@Lupus_Indomitus]

@@ironwolfF1 well, not hfy, but imo it was still better then the story i mentioned. but thats just my opinion

[@fallennacht9305]

That was a incredible story

[@carlmorrison9789]

This was a good short story. Kudos!

[@jakobwranne398]

Can’t wait for part 2!

[@MogofWar]

So Humankind invented the HALO and set it to "stun."

[@lilsquire143]

Cadia stands

[@LHCB6]

This is fantastic

[@savevsdeath]

Moral of the story: Never give up your guns.

[@45Mistuikeidentity]

This is a good one

[@jordanshadows3253]

Damn this was a good one!!!

[@waltergolston6187]

Now that was a corker!

[@daavocadoguy5733]

its been a while since i heard this kind of story

[@talyn3932]

That was excellent.

[@donchichivagabond1578]

Now this is a story!!!

[@jamescustodio3094]

Hey Netty, where's part 2! There is a part 2, I just checked the Reddit.

[@NuggetGal]

i bet the swarm landed in volgograd

[@66Lynnie]

Fantastic!

[@ericr.palmer8200]

that was fun.

[@eric39175]

Good story, well told! :)

[@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc]

holodeck. well done.

[@andrewerickson6690]

Someone started up haarp

[@Corvidknows]

I enjoyed this story very much. I can tell the author sweated blood to keep it as short as it was, it could have been a novel. Two thots: if the blob fed on planets with life, why did it gain an advantage when it engulfed the moon? Wouldn't that have sapped energy from it? Also, how does a probe outside a spaceship scan the brains of humans inside? But the hfy quotient was too high on this one to mind such details too much.

[@AlleluiaElizabeth]

There were defenders on the moon when it took it, most likely.

[@krisgibbon2199]

​@AlleluiaElizabeth Not to mention the loss of all the defensive emplacements.

[@Neteruk]

So you're saying they're perfect targets for our grey goo?

[@chrisdufresne9359]

I'm doing my part!

[@yormhammerson530]

The sons of dorn heed and march!

[@Logajam.]

Im going to miss all the aquatic mammals and sharks. Who all drowned/sufficated when the disruptor was activated.

[@Ben111778]

Meh. An ocean with out sharks ain't that bad a thing. But the aquatic mammals would survive, being capable of holding their breath far longer than a himan can.. and the humans survived. The same as turtles, snakes, crab n lobster types, the aquatic mammals be fine.. the ones too small who can't would more than likely naturally float to the surface and automation take over as it's all sketched out, like humanity did.

[@I.C.U-c7l]

Now this was a great story.....

[@dingopowell9436]

Very riveting

[@chrisweiss6363]

Great story

[@mattstrandquist2148]

AD VICTORIUM!

[@doodlePimp]

Pretty good story.

[@chrisdixon7099]

If they just let us fight years ago we would have fought like this and our world would be different now.

[@chaoticjester458]

dude fought the Halo flood

[@MogofWar]

Apparently the Precursors could have saved themselves a lot of heartache if they had simply given the HALO a stun setting.

[@beingsneaky]

welp where is part 2 - 100??

[@kinglito9569]

Is there a full story of this ? 😮

[@-MeatsOfEvil-]

#667, saved you from evil, you're welcome! 😉

[@somethingsomethingtextings1001]

Aren’t the enemy just tyranids from warhammer 40k just weaker and less effective

[@MidKnight_Sicario187]

Is this Enders game?

[@phxJohn2010]

Well that doesn't make sense. You can't just "adapt" to something like that. That's not how biology works.

[@Terran.Marine.2]

I do not see how the swarm could adapt to attack there were no survivors, no communication to other swarm beings.

[@krisgibbon2199]

In the reddit comments, the author explains it as the swarm is literally one collective entity. It would be as if your arm suddenly became paralyzed. You can't feel your arm, but you're still somewhat aware of what's happening to it.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

hmm ,but with that complexity of intelligence and self modification capabilities should not the swarm started to track the transmissions from those deep space probes back to the supposed 'dead' planets and got ..curious ? then agen , maby it was something like entangled or 'split' particles used for the remote control that not left any 'particle traces' though also , considering its not just a planet but a galaxy extinction situation having lost a couple of billions when hearing it more or lees was a bio version of the 'grey goo' scenario should have made the general rather go ''oh we 'only' lost a couple billions' ...and then pause the conversation to quickly inform all surviving scientists in those fields and governments so that the short term drafting of every able bodied person for combat and every baseline cognitive stable person for production should be extended indefinitely and a civilization wide swift information dispersion arranged for all to understand why , as the general return to the first alien contact diplomacy while others start design plans for generation ships and either meteor canons or flat out solar nova inducing catalyst warheads all while every factory not used to re-arm the current forces start supply a rapid reconstruction and expansion of the lunar base , but with equall frenzy also the deployment of armada of stellar raw resource harvesting and the foundries and orbital dry docks needed to build self sufficient migration war fleets to send out both as 'survival seeds' and also as vanguards of those tactical system strike generation ships before said general also bring news at least one species civilization where ready to form a pact of mutual survival and extermination with a complete share of all its assets and manpower how ever humans see wish to use it for the war doctrines and species quirks that provided the only victory ever vs the bio swarm

[@Orbitaakter]

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[@maryrose2676]

Six hundred seventy fourth

[@Angrycapitalist]

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[@Basil.enjoyer.v3]

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