Next Book.
Added 2025-02-28 16:48:52 +0000 UTCIt's that time again. Time to vote on which book I shall work on next!
There is however a caveat. In my heart of hearts, I believe Space ended on a good point for Jason - if a bit of a cliffhanger for the universe as a whole. The series also had some teething issues borne of it be my first attempt at long-form content.
So, if the vote is for a new Space, it will have a new protagonist and take place a few years after the events of Book Three. Jason's ultimate fate will be revealed, but as a background detail to our new protagonist's journey.
As for which book I want? I'd be down for any of my three series at this point.
Comments
The thing that Im sure you’ve noticed with all these polls is that whatever your most recent work is wins. Because it is your audiences most recent exposure to your work. That said, I think the Space Babes continuation would blow up. Thats my vote. #Yarobestgirl
Activist Moon
2025-03-12 23:19:18 +0000 UTCSeriously I see tv series, movies and games in the future of this ip.
notreal name
2025-03-11 16:17:12 +0000 UTCSo, the overall hype and reaction you got with the space babes story leads me to believe it's one of thoes rare once in a generation "lightning in a bottle" ideas. Have you thought about letting the fan story authors publish their work? There were so many heavily engaged fan authors growing the extended universe. The buisness man in my soul can see the space babes universe getting as big as star wars with the right marketing push.
notreal name
2025-03-11 16:09:36 +0000 UTCSexy skinwalker babes at some point?
notreal name
2025-03-11 15:39:34 +0000 UTCI still love the first story, BUT I also feel that with story telling you should be allowed to go back and rewrite a story for the better. So I think you should take your time while writing these other stories to formulate a longer term plan for the protagonist that goes on longer and doesn’t end on a cliff hanger as it does. Perhaps making it so that he isn’t the sole and only major player in the universe from the get go, but still the “main” character or lead. Maybe work together with some of the other long standing writers who are still writing for the universe with excellent stories. Like an even more thoroughly collaborative narrative. However, Too often as seen with Hollywood misconstruing this as “making MY mark on the franchise” instead of simply IMPROVING IT or ironing out kinks in the narrative such as plot holes or fumbled plot points. So I don’t think you should do so unless you feel it’s the right time. So please do consider giving the story another try in the future… and only partially cause I’m tired of people saying it was glorified smut😂!
Hunter
2025-03-11 13:24:58 +0000 UTCWill you be releasing the reddit chapter today?
Andrew Lechner
2025-03-08 20:14:43 +0000 UTCNot necessarily. He picked the corsair because it was the best prop aircraft for carriers and therefore simple (so he doesn't burn out his brain). He's never alluded to the corsair being nostalgic.
Found&Lost
2025-03-08 13:25:04 +0000 UTCI think switching between stories is better. Also, I find the idea that Jason wouldn't have the princess after him for snubbing her like that dubious, and also a missed opportunity for us to get a better look at the workings of the higher levels of Imperium government
Gregory Sampson
2025-03-08 07:36:44 +0000 UTCHe was a pilot in his previous life. Presumably a F4U pilot during WW2 in the Pacific theater.
Groo
2025-03-08 03:26:19 +0000 UTCMagic doesn't touch him in any way. He is far more magic resistant than even materials that he brought over. Maybe that's why his "spirit beast" started to develop ki
Groo
2025-03-07 01:36:57 +0000 UTCI was thinking, if taken down, they may just house their core in a slapped together Light Carrier Hull with quad 50s turrets for AA and A-floaty wizards
Groo
2025-03-07 01:33:45 +0000 UTCReplying to Groo - Greygrass may be conflicted. They may have lost the family airship hull, but they will keep the core. The ship may still be getting refitted after spend a few years in the woods without a core. Even if it was lost, three members of House Greygrass were instrumental in taking revenge since they were senior officers on the Jellyfish, including the Captain.
Trevayne
2025-03-06 14:03:51 +0000 UTCHow is Nuiy a loose end? All she ever was was an excuse for the Author to write his Milf kink
Groo
2025-03-06 13:10:33 +0000 UTCHer Gaes was basically "don't tell people about how we killed Al'hunda". He trusts Marline because he rebuilt the House Greygrass with the core he gave them. Sad thing is they may have lost the family ship again, as they were a Crownland House, but they might not have sallied for a couple possible reasons.
Groo
2025-03-06 13:07:45 +0000 UTCPossible, but I think her secret is personal, probably her sexual preferences and possibly her sex. She has already sworn her personal loyalty and her house has followed because William saved them from a slow decline as landless nobility by gifting them with a core. She is the only member of team 7 with a geas to William, so he probably trusts her even more than the others.
Trevayne
2025-03-06 01:24:35 +0000 UTCOk I've been re reading some chapters and the topic of Marlene's secrete have come up a couple of times. In chapter 44 where she ask William if he trusts her and he pauses a line or two later she asks him if he wants to know her secret. He says no. As readers we know William thinks it's cause she is gay, and maybe she is but could there also be something else? In a world of no STDs and there doesn't seem to be any negative social issues with having children out of wedlock, guess a lack of men would do that, could she be related to someone important to Williams plans?
MS
2025-03-05 23:38:34 +0000 UTCIs Jack simply a mortal? IIRC he doesn't have any qi abilities, but he does have a complete immunity to things like killing intent. Cultivators can break him with their superior strength, but they can't crush him with their aura, the way they can defeat actual mortals.
Trevayne
2025-03-05 23:16:59 +0000 UTCI've been reading sect again while waiting for the next chapter. Doing so has reminded me of how much I had looked forward to Huang's reaction to Jack being a mortal. She was the single strongest non divinity in Ten Huo and despite focusing her wrath on him he didn't even flinch. It'd be utterly mind blowing for her to find out that Jack is simply a mortal. A mortal she compared to her father at one point.
Vonbaron
2025-03-05 19:43:28 +0000 UTCConsidering that Space Babes is not likely to return, what’s Jason’s ultimate fate? When we left him he was about to leave the imperium, his harem, and his barely functioning life in the military to rebuild himself with nothing. Always felt like his story was not supposed to end there so what was supposed to happen to him coming out of the new space babe’s story? I would really appreciate some closure as I’ve been on Space babes since the beginning and have been waiting years for one of these questions answered. He has more than a few loose ends with Yaro, Nuiy, and Tarcil off the top of my head.
mhaj58
2025-03-05 09:49:40 +0000 UTCProblem is, it's information he possesses that makes him superior in the setting, not skills. He had no piloting skills prior, which means he'd know the theory but would need to rely on in-world training. It would make him an average pilot. Not a good idea. It's like sending the Captain on the ship down with the away team... (Yes Star Trek, I'm looking at you)
Matt Bradock
2025-03-05 08:49:05 +0000 UTCThe muse can sometimes be a real bitch, not shutting up when you want her to, and not talking to you when you want her to.
Matt Bradock
2025-03-05 08:46:51 +0000 UTCSounds like you want to keep writing but want a break from the deadlines to me, nothing wrong with that.
Groinfist
2025-03-05 03:11:18 +0000 UTCJust to let you know, the "first" link in the last couple reddit chapters takes you to chapter 46 instead of chapter 1.
Andrew Lechner
2025-03-04 14:39:49 +0000 UTCSexy Synth Babes flows better imo
Skonnchy
2025-03-04 05:00:35 +0000 UTCThe same wiki article mentioned that the bats were seen just falling to the ground and dying. The other thing is bats have to exist in this world, and the RN needs to be able to capture and hold large numbers of bats.
Trevayne
2025-03-03 22:00:47 +0000 UTCIt looks like the poll has closed. I take it you are editing and preparing Sect for publication in March and we should start looking for the first chapter in the new book in the first week of April? Is that a reasonable approximation or would you prefer to give a better estimate later on in March?
Trevayne
2025-03-03 21:53:46 +0000 UTCReading your stories makes me happy, making sure you're healthy makes me happier :D
YYEyes
2025-03-03 17:59:28 +0000 UTCBlue, take a vacation and get some rest. Burn out is real and I've seen many a person especially creative types fall to it.
MS
2025-03-03 16:22:26 +0000 UTCIf you wanted, you could start writing now so you have a backlog, and the ability to take time off when you do need it during the posting of the next book Then again, the ability to relax is an important one
Jake the L
2025-03-03 14:35:36 +0000 UTCGotta alliterate, though a soft C feels like it’s pretty close to alliteration
Jake the L
2025-03-03 14:34:38 +0000 UTCIts called being a workaholic.
Mika Willems
2025-03-03 08:47:24 +0000 UTCThey burned down an airfield and mock village in testing.
Borisoff72
2025-03-03 04:10:54 +0000 UTCAnd if they don’t flow, we’ll have to get him some spice.
Brian Roger
2025-03-03 03:45:14 +0000 UTCIf I were to do that, I'd call it Sexy Synthetic Babes :P
Blue Fishcake
2025-03-03 00:36:09 +0000 UTCSexy Cyberpunk Babes when?
Mkez45634
2025-03-02 23:43:31 +0000 UTCDude. That is one of the downsides of the artist. To need a break, yet feel guilty because the muse is still flowing through them, realizing that it might stop at any moment, yet still needing the break. Take whatever time you need, without guilt. We will still be here, and we have faith your creative juices will flow when you need them to.
Kaywye
2025-03-02 23:02:30 +0000 UTCI can remember completing a deployment as a reservist and then having almost 60 days of accumulated leave.
Trevayne
2025-03-02 22:34:26 +0000 UTCwhen are you going to close the poll? seems pretty decided.
mraanonymous
2025-03-02 22:28:58 +0000 UTCAnyone ever take time off and then feel weird about it? I mean, I'm not charging for the month and I was quite desperate to spend some time not writing. Yet, it's hard to turn it off :D
Blue Fishcake
2025-03-02 21:49:59 +0000 UTCOh changing to steam then, I thought this was for after a 3rd steam book 😀. Steam is peak.
Alex
2025-03-02 06:54:02 +0000 UTCErr, I distrust theoretical estimates of weapon effectiveness. It is like the estimates that point out that a certain relatively small amount of botulinum toxin could kill the entire planetary population. Which is true if you can figure out how to get them all to line up for an intra muscular injection. Not particularly practical in the real world.
Trevayne
2025-03-02 04:29:12 +0000 UTCPacing feels really off at times for me in reading Steam. Probably because I assumed we'd get more slice of life stuff involving those you listed and more. Instead we move to a new location for a moment and suddenly it's months later in a completely different spot. I would of liked to see more scenery being 'chewed". I was reading sect again and I couldn't help but notice that the pacing felt a lot better and chapters felt a lot less disjointed. I wondered if that was because of some outlining/planning issues. I try to suggest blue do what inspires them so that there's maximum motivation to get outlines and backgrounds figured out early.
Vonbaron
2025-03-02 03:21:28 +0000 UTCThe cliffhanger feeling is just too strong on Steampunk to vote for anything else.
J Duo
2025-03-02 03:10:41 +0000 UTCIt was tested and worked (a bit too well the one time) it was found that a payload of incendiary bats could be a dozen times more effective than an equivalent payload of normal incendiary bombs. Like the previous comment said, they never used it because the nukes were ready first and would obviously make more of a statement than massive animal cruelty and reckless pyromania. The cartoon gets the assessment wrong. From the wiki: "The main advantage of the units would seem to be their placement within the enemy structures without the knowledge of the householder or fire watchers, thus allowing the fire to establish itself before being discovered...The National Defense Research Committee observer stated: "It was concluded that X-Ray is an effective weapon." The chief chemist's report stated that, on a weight basis, X-Ray was more effective than the standard incendiary bombs in use at the time: "Expressed in another way, the regular bombs would give probably 167 to 400 fires per bomb load where X-Ray would give 3,625 to 4,748 fires."
Borisoff72
2025-03-02 03:10:22 +0000 UTCI mean a lot of the reason they gave up on the bat's was that nukes were ready
thomas
2025-03-01 21:10:41 +0000 UTCI definitely want more of Steampunk babes, but i very much want more Sect in my life. Sect is what made me join the patreon and i've re-read it about three times. I love it and i want to see how Jack is gonna do.
Drunk Pop-Tart
2025-03-01 19:15:59 +0000 UTCI would say steam 3 and then space
Bunten44
2025-03-01 19:14:05 +0000 UTCI agree- I feel like ‘Mary Sue’ and ‘Competent/Powerful character’ have been lumped together. The protag of Sect Babes was super powerful, and I don’t remember any Mary Sue complaints there. The ‘Mary Sue’ term originated from a star trek fic where the protag (of that name) never had anything bad happen to her ever, and was super competent at everything she did. For those who’re familiar, the ‘That time I was reincarnated as a slime’ anime feels like it’d warrant Mary Sue accusations, but William is hardly on top politically, even if he is doing well. All Blue’s characters go from zero to hero over the course of the story.
Jake the L
2025-03-01 19:11:25 +0000 UTCI need William getting into dog fights
Chud Bronson
2025-03-01 18:16:09 +0000 UTCHonestly, steampunk is to me the most interesting of the concepts behind each world, especially for William himself. Yes, given time he's overpowered, but he still must contend with the politics of the world and balance himself within them, he still has to deal with the whole harrowed situation (essentially fighting himself at points), and he doesn't have space-age tech to fall back on like Jack and Jason do. If anything, what makes William feel powerful is the lower power-scaling of the world around him, though that doesn't mean they aren't threats to him in other ways.
Lucas F
2025-03-01 17:39:19 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/jSlriTo3d2k I mean, there's a reason the bat-bomb was never actually used.
Blue Fishcake
2025-03-01 14:41:04 +0000 UTCI think Steampunk is your best work so far, and I for one certainly don't mind having more plot than smut. And you've gotten good at universe building and plot. There are dime a dozen space and Xianxia fictions around but Steampunk is a woefully neglected genre. And you're about to turn it into Dieselpunk, which is absolutely awesome
Matt Bradock
2025-03-01 10:50:37 +0000 UTCCareful, your head is too big! But seriously, please continue the space universe.
Loganlee20
2025-03-01 09:32:00 +0000 UTCI wouldn’t say he’s a merry sue, he’s just very over powered for this setting.
mike wade
2025-03-01 08:08:13 +0000 UTCI want all 3
Groinfist
2025-03-01 07:53:53 +0000 UTCI definitely want more Steampunk as William delights me.
Gjim
2025-03-01 07:00:13 +0000 UTCOh this is cool, I remember you did a similar poll not long after sects release if memory serves and how drastic it has changed.
Medical-Cyanide
2025-03-01 06:12:22 +0000 UTCOh god, please do. I'm pretty behind on reading Steampunk, but I can definitly see a big increase in your writing skills, and I'll love to see you put that to Space. As well as that I'm been dying for the next Space book since 3 ended.
Zeoncobra
2025-03-01 05:06:55 +0000 UTCWow, steampunk is ahead by miles. Not surprising. Its the least convoluted idea. Plus, the protag's mary sue is the easiest to digetst and root for. My only real complaint is that there's not more sex scenes. God, i miss when you were a horny little writer.
mraanonymous
2025-03-01 05:05:08 +0000 UTCCan't put Steam on hold just as the Civil War is heating up. Not only that, you've got two not half bad side plots going on, first, the rejuvenated Free Orcs hitting the Blackstones while they're trying to fight the Crown and, second, the Crown hitting back for the attack on the Capital. The latter will of course, have to be done on the cheap since the Crown will be in the middle of a civil war, so again, I have to say, BAT BOMBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WLBeWf8K_M&t=5s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
Borisoff72
2025-03-01 04:50:02 +0000 UTCI've always wanted to see the greater space. Jason was finally free an we could see more than the Shilvanti Imperium. It's why I've voted for space every time.
Found&Lost
2025-03-01 04:11:25 +0000 UTCWell, people are talking about recency bias, but I read space and sect after steam. I didn't even know blue existed before that. I still like steam best. I didn't care for the characters in space, but I did like the setting. So, that's a second choice. I couldn't get into sect at all though
Anonymonous
2025-03-01 03:09:42 +0000 UTCPlease do. I don't know of many books that have resulted in as many fanfics as yours, some of them even semi-decent.
DMR1
2025-03-01 02:43:06 +0000 UTCI’m hooked on steampunk right now (honestly I know book 3 will be the rebellion but I want a book 4 with a 2 front war against the Solites and Lunites)
SpecterJedi
2025-03-01 02:17:58 +0000 UTCAt this point, I'm half tempted to go back to Space just to see if I could make it awesome(r). Everything I write is awesome by default after all, as I was the one who wrote it. And everything I touch is gold. :P
Blue Fishcake
2025-03-01 01:56:39 +0000 UTCSo I love steampunk, allot, and would love for it to continue... But my gut says that thats just recency bias, and I would enjoy sect just as much. I did join your patreon for sect afterall. I'm less keen on space tho, I think your writing and setting design has improved massively with sect and steam...
Bradiation
2025-03-01 00:50:17 +0000 UTCI guess I didn’t think about it like that. In my mind all of your stuff is good even if they’re not that similar. I’m here as much for your writing style and settings as I am for any one story. I suppose I could see dropping the sub if I wasn’t keeping up to date anymore, but reading new chapters each week has become such an essential part of my routine, I doubt it would happen any time soon.
Moonlightwind
2025-03-01 00:35:57 +0000 UTCMy personal taste is for either sect or steam. I'm glad you said it first, I do feel that space has some rougher edges and that you definitely have grown as a writer since then. Going back with a new character and a new cast definitely could improve the setting and I think there's some really interesting stories to tell there though. Honestly I trust you to write a compelling story no matter which setting you pick. I also do sort of agree with the person who suggested that recency bias might make a poll like this less effective at picking your next book
Folly Industries
2025-03-01 00:22:34 +0000 UTCDamn. Outvoted again. Maybe one day we'll get more Space Babes.
ColonelCodfish
2025-02-28 23:39:50 +0000 UTCI recently read and enjoyed Sect. That said, Blue opted for a new series because Sect had reached a natural pause point. Unlike Steampunk, all the immediate threats had been defeated. Yes, Jack's revelation is going to stir things up, but I doubt he is going to be invaded in the next 2-3 weeks. That is happening in Steampunk.
Trevayne
2025-02-28 22:45:41 +0000 UTCThe issue with these, is that the highest vote will tend toward the last series you just rote. It's going to be the one your readers are currently the most emotionally invested in.
Prometheus
2025-02-28 22:42:46 +0000 UTCIf anything, all of the offshoots are a reason not to do space now. Those fans have all the offshoots to pay attention to. The Steam punk fans would be stuck with a known cliffhanger for a year or more.
Trevayne
2025-02-28 22:35:44 +0000 UTCI agree somewhat about the princesses. I would have liked to see the Queen's government and circle of advisors fleshed out. The counterpoint is that the Krakenslayer was the single most important secret in Lindholm. Given that it was understandable that the only person the Queen accepted to be involved was Griffith. If she hadn't been the one to bring it to her and been the best liaison choice, Yelena probably would have kept her out as well. Regardless of her status as trusted childhood friend.
Trevayne
2025-02-28 22:25:03 +0000 UTCGood point
Diego Villa
2025-02-28 22:06:31 +0000 UTCJason is mc for sexy space babes. A dude who just shagged alien chick's. Jack, is mc in sect, a former space miner
MS
2025-02-28 21:53:34 +0000 UTCHe said we getting an ebook version of Sect ready for release during this break as well as prepared for the next book
Admiralthrawnbar
2025-02-28 21:53:31 +0000 UTCi personally enjoy sect a lot more, but it's kind of at a good place right now. no real need to rush it. steampunk on the other hand, ended on what is practically a cliffhanger lol
John
2025-02-28 21:32:56 +0000 UTCI'd be kinda up for a space spinoff starring Yaro. Aka the only character other than Jason who's name I remember at this point.
Morpheus
2025-02-28 21:01:29 +0000 UTCHey! Any plans for ebook releases for any of the newer content?
George
2025-02-28 20:53:56 +0000 UTCThe votes seem to be going for steam, but I wanted to chime in and say that i think you should think it through a bit Sect and steam are both great, but steam does have some writing flaws that I believe stem from inadequate outlining and planning, and rushing into a book two of it might not give you the time to do said planning. Back in sect, geopolitics was important, but kinda a backdrop. There were like 2 named characters that were involved in the political situation directly, one is in his harem now and the other works for him with a bomb in her neck. So while politics was important in a lore sense, it was barely present in a story sense. The characters that are important are very present and easily memorable. And the characters that don't have much presence aren't really missed. Like the doctor guy, or Lin's parents. They aren't around much, but it doesn't feel like they needed to be. In Steam however you went full Game of thrones. LOTS of moving parts and players, all with names and interplays that they were involved with. Ultimately you did fairly well, but some things seemed weird. The princesses were initially played up as being very involved in operating the country, even competing for involvement in his projects... then nothing... we got introduced to one at one point... then nothing again till the last chapter. They kinda should have been a big deal. Similar to some of the other big players like the foreign powers that some people are following but honestly kinda bur together for me. People introduced and then left out for a long time. Heck we don't even really know how marrying the twins will get him the summerfield duchy. Lady summerfield ain't even dead, and is another non-character. Same with Ozlenya's family (absent) and Marlene's family (cameo) and Bonlynn's family. (cameo). Verity's family had more 'screentime' then all the others combined and they're the least important from an overall plot standpoint. Basically it feels that Steam has way more characters and moving parts than Sect and i wonder if you may have bitten off too much at once, and thus didn't cover them fully. You may need more careful outlining and planning before you get into a book two. I on quite a few occasions was wondering what was up with this or that person and being disappointed that never got it covered. I don't remember thinking that about the minor Sect characters.
Morpheus
2025-02-28 20:49:15 +0000 UTCLook I didn't dislike the other two stories, but you have truly addicted me to Steam. The political maneuvering, concept behind his knowledge and personality having been isekaied, it is well thought out, and well executed... and so, it gets my vote. Thank you.
Kaywye
2025-02-28 20:46:38 +0000 UTCFor me the biggest factor is the state the stories are in Sect has reached a point where Jack is in a stable position Steam has an impending civil war that is right around the corner Leat steam cool down before returning to Sect (maybe after the Blackstones lose will be a good point to pause it) As for Space, I would love to see a continuation from Blue but there are also the 3rd party spinoffs that scratch that itch (Just One Drop, Top Lasgun, Denied Operations, etc) so I would prefer to see more Steam/Sect
Hector Haddow
2025-02-28 20:36:50 +0000 UTCThat was pretty much the deciding factor for me. I love Jack's story but Will's story is just getting going.
Vonbaron
2025-02-28 20:29:47 +0000 UTCSect has my favorite MC
Sebas Tian
2025-02-28 20:22:43 +0000 UTCAs much as I loved Sect it's at a good resting point, while Steam is only just heating up.
Hector Haddow
2025-02-28 20:15:53 +0000 UTCSect or Steam good for me.
Vonbaron
2025-02-28 19:48:54 +0000 UTCSpace is my favorite of your series' by far. I agree that the best way forward with it is with a new character, I never found Jason that interesting anyways. But I really love the setting because a sci-fi universe where humans are the sexy space babes or guys is very unique and that I don't think anyone has done before and I dying to see more. I agree with Rex Regun that the longer you delay returning to Space the less people become interested in it. So please don't leave it cold for long. If Steampunk 3 wins the vote, which it looks like it might, please return to Space.
Zeoncobra
2025-02-28 19:31:50 +0000 UTCWhile I have grown to love steam, sect will always be my favorite. I agree with you on space, Jason's story doesn't seem to have anywhere to go and I feel it is best left as it is. It seems recency bias will win the day so let's see where the story goes.
Redacted
2025-02-28 19:28:37 +0000 UTCAh, sorry, I didn't think about looking at the word count for each of the series.
CM
2025-02-28 19:28:35 +0000 UTCCan't really see a way around that. I don't mind working on any at the moment and I do like giving people a voice. With that said, if I do a third book of steam, it likely won't be in the vote again next time. At that point, I'd probably just unilaterally decide to do a Space book.
Blue Fishcake
2025-02-28 19:26:31 +0000 UTCI'd point out that given the extra length of the books in Steam, it's actually pretty close to Space in word count.
Blue Fishcake
2025-02-28 19:25:05 +0000 UTCYes.
Blue Fishcake
2025-02-28 19:24:03 +0000 UTCI vote for Steampunk, as really it's the most interesting of the three. I also think it should go on till we get a proper ending, which I realize may take yet another trilogy.
The Fire Piper
2025-02-28 19:22:58 +0000 UTCThe dude went from living in a mineshaft to being god of an entire continental region, how exactly does he lack growth? Steampunk is the exact same thing but just with less of a technological gap..
Toby
2025-02-28 19:20:50 +0000 UTCI certainly agree with this and add the caveat that Bluefish is also getting better as he goes!
The Fire Piper
2025-02-28 19:20:46 +0000 UTCI voted for steam but honestly I think you will keep running into bias in these polls weighted towards most recent novel, coz at the end of the day you are good writer and all these novels have their strong point but only one is freshest in the memory.
TheDevotus
2025-02-28 19:14:21 +0000 UTCMy reasons for sect being second pick is there is to mush reliance on nano technology and it being unbelievably in the world. In Steam magic isn't quit the super power the tech is in sect. I like them both just Steam better. As for space, I LOOVE me any story about the Shil Vati. But Jason was a dead end character with no growth.
MS
2025-02-28 19:13:25 +0000 UTCI'm choosing steam because the other 2 got a trilogy it's only fitting steam gets it's trilogy too.
CM
2025-02-28 19:08:28 +0000 UTCPerhaps as a consequence of the better political intrigue, i think the characters in the most recent setting ended up lacking a bit in terms of time to breathe. I do think this has by far the best political intrigue, and as a consequence the best plot. But I must say that I loved the world of SSB the best.
Cineos
2025-02-28 19:01:51 +0000 UTCI also agree i kept thinking he would grow but nope. He just seemed stuck
MS
2025-02-28 19:00:50 +0000 UTCAgreed
MS
2025-02-28 18:58:40 +0000 UTCI voted for steam but I would not be opposed to sect continuing as both worlds hold extreme interest to me and I would love to know more and I don't even really like Chinese fantasy settings it's just that interesting
Killerturd117
2025-02-28 18:46:43 +0000 UTCWhile it unfortunately looks like recency bias is gonna win the day, I do have a question about the process from your end. I know you write an outline ahead of time but if the last-minute change from having the final battle of last book over the water to having it over the capital is anything to go by it isn't that detailed. So my question is this, roughly what level of detail do you know what will happen in the next of any of these books now, how much is created in the outline, and how much is created as you're writing chapter-to-chapter?
Admiralthrawnbar
2025-02-28 18:19:23 +0000 UTCIf we ever get a new space then doing it with a new char is the right way, as jason as a char in my opinion is not that interresting
Bunten44
2025-02-28 18:09:34 +0000 UTCI absolutely want to see Space continue. The setting is too good for it to end with Jason. Jason was a great character, and I'm not just happy but I agree with him ending his military and narrative career there and moving on with his life like he wanted to. This way we can see new characters with new POVs and new places! But the setting, man I read through all three books for the setting itself, and I'm having difficulty in trying to find the words in how unique the setting felt from other sci fi and the largely cringe HFY. This doesn't feel like HFY, more like sci fi except humans aren't just the newcomers, we're nobodies, and we're going to remain nobodies for centuries, and I want to see that! Cause that's cool! I want to see the first steps humanities makes for our first impressions with the other species, where nothing is expected of us and we surpass those expectations and simultaneously fail those expectations.
Blood Raven
2025-02-28 17:57:42 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying Steam, and I am quite excited to see the story escalate into a proper conflict... ... But Sect remains my favourite of the three, and I really want to get back to it! Gimme my feudal Chinese beastkin waifus, damnit! 😂
Baron Von Mott
2025-02-28 17:56:44 +0000 UTCSpace Babes was and still is the best choice for your next book. But the longer you delay returning to it, the more interest may fade as new stories emerge. The best approach would be to continue Space Babes first, then Sect, then Steampunk—giving each story enough time to be craved by fans, just as Space Babes has been. I call this the “Space Babes Treatment.”lol
Rex Regun
2025-02-28 17:52:27 +0000 UTCI'm also quite surprised, I thought the gap would be a lot closer at least... But the numbers are most likely due to a large portion of older fans not sticking around to vote since they don't care for the newer story.
Skonnchy
2025-02-28 17:39:16 +0000 UTCLuke Payne
2025-02-28 17:36:31 +0000 UTCIm voting for Sect because I feel much more attached to the characters surrounding Jack than I do towards the current cast, and the story finished on such a ginormous unsatisfying cliffhanger that I just have to see it rectified... I'll be happy with whatever wins but its still a shame that recency bias has such a strong effect since a lot of the people who dont care much for the newer story haven't stuck around to vote.
Skonnchy
2025-02-28 17:36:24 +0000 UTCRight now I am voting for steam, since there is still the stuff with Blackstones and I do not know how it will end. If you post this poll after the current book for steam ends, I might vote for space. I do not really care about sect that much.
MaliMi
2025-02-28 17:34:40 +0000 UTCloving steampunk but space will always hold a special place for me.
limit
2025-02-28 17:34:33 +0000 UTCI kinda can’t believe that Sect isn’t the clear winner. They’re all outstanding, but I do feel like Jack Johannsen has had the most compelling side characters and I _Love_ his viewpoint on his world. I’m honestly surprised that Steampunk has been as successful as it has in this vote, because - and I say this with love - while it’s been a fascinating journey, I don’t think any of the characters are nearly as compelling.
Toby
2025-02-28 17:32:10 +0000 UTCSteampunk is by far your best work. It is really quite amazing how far you’ve grown as an author.
Mark
2025-02-28 17:28:33 +0000 UTCI don't think Space Babes will ever win a poll, and that's a shame. It won't win because it's your first. It lacks all the skill and growth you've gained while writing it, Sect, and Steampunk. So, while I would love to be proven wrong, I don't think it will ever win a poll against any new writing you've produced. Space Babes has the greatest potential of all your settings. Potential that you'd undoubtedly bring to the fore with the skills you've built since first writing it. So it's a shame to see it remain untouched.
missionz3r0
2025-02-28 17:28:05 +0000 UTCGiven that the selection pool consists of patrons, the most recent book typically has an advantage, as people who didn't like the new book as much leave and new people come due to that series. The oldest series is always going to be at a disadvantage, and the newest is always going to have an advantage. Personally, I'm not sure votes like this are even a good idea. I am biased, as I want to return to space even with a new character, but given that the votes are kind of a forgone conclusion, I'm not sure it's wise. I respect the intention of allowing your audience who pays your bills to have a say, but I don't know if this is the way to achieve that.
Beep
2025-02-28 17:25:53 +0000 UTCI'm so conflicted between choosing Sect and Steampunk that I keep switching my votes back and forth. Love both the stories and their respective worlds. On one book, we'll get to see the repercussions of Jack being exposed as a fake basically, and on the other, there's a whole civil war brewing, that I can't wait to see continue. I want to vote for both :/
Brahman
2025-02-28 17:25:30 +0000 UTCOne has to remember there's a bit of bias here in that people that liked the old stuff but didn't care for Steam will have likely unsubbed by this point.
Blue Fishcake
2025-02-28 17:23:58 +0000 UTCI'd say do the third steampunk book, finishing a trilogy. Then go back to space.
Andrew Lechner
2025-02-28 17:22:42 +0000 UTCNo. Hell no.
Blue Fishcake
2025-02-28 17:22:41 +0000 UTCI long for a return to space.
SteelWings
2025-02-28 17:20:21 +0000 UTCAll three books are on r/HFY
Shafts
2025-02-28 17:19:13 +0000 UTCYou gotta continue with Sect babes, while Steampunk is great you could use change of gener :D Also, where can I read sexy Space babes?
JustShadow
2025-02-28 17:15:08 +0000 UTCWell, easy for me to say as I started with steam punk and have to first read the others.
JJR
2025-02-28 17:13:24 +0000 UTCSteampunk all the way. The protagonist and side characters are more interesting and I’m more emotionally attached to them. The magic is more low key so I’m not anticipating any left field “Deus Machina” cop-out spell to fix everything. Jack’s technology is functionally magic compared to Will’s 20th century tech he has to actually figure out how to build. Steampunk and Sect both have interesting world-building I want to explore more but Steampunk just barely wins out.
22junk
2025-02-28 17:13:21 +0000 UTCHell no. Sect and steam punk were nice, but they did not have the spin offs space did. Fans already built whole worlds. You are objectively wrong. I have been waiting since the end for more and basically been shafted. I have yet to see long spin offs of sect or steam punk, but there are many for space. Space is what the fans want.
Rob
2025-02-28 17:10:48 +0000 UTCThe curse of “I like the new thing” strikes once more. Can’t say I disagree though…
Marsharbour
2025-02-28 17:10:42 +0000 UTCI’m surprised the newcomer in Steampunk is so far ahead. I guess people have some distance from Sect and Space, and are more eager to learn what happens next in Steampunk first. I’m still voting for Sect, I don’t know what it is about it that I just really connect with over the other 2, I’ve gone back and reread it twice now I think. I think I’ll be happy no matter what wins because everything is good, but I’m looking forward to seeing what’s been Jack has been up to eventually.
Moonlightwind
2025-02-28 17:07:59 +0000 UTCSpace is basic. Its forgettable at best. Sect is better. But Steam is simply cake. I could se myself getting it on audible
Mega Art
2025-02-28 17:04:58 +0000 UTCI think at this point we’re so hooked you could go for Sexy Sushi Babes and we’d all come back for our fix.
Aurelio Rognetta
2025-02-28 17:03:48 +0000 UTCBlue, totally agree with you on Space.
MS
2025-02-28 17:01:31 +0000 UTCI definitely enjoyed sect the most out if the 3 options and would leave too see a continuation
Ryno Botha
2025-02-28 17:00:52 +0000 UTCI love space for the universe and I want more scene with hot shivaltis women. But even though I I would love to get SSB first, I think it's fair to let the books who ended on a cliffhanger pass first. Steampunk or Sect.
Loganlee20
2025-02-28 16:58:20 +0000 UTCI’m voting for space primarily because it has quite a large following and multiple story branches currently on Reddit. To be able to pull from such a large amount of stories would make it one hell of a ride. In addition, he could get assistance from other writers if he wants to incorporate characters from their fic’s.
Ghost of action
2025-02-28 16:55:19 +0000 UTCRanked choice plz 😀
Alex
2025-02-28 16:54:57 +0000 UTCI feel like if either Sect or steampunk wins then Space has to come after, those fans are starving for more at this point lol.
Skonnchy
2025-02-28 16:53:46 +0000 UTCEverything-enjoyers stay winning
zmessing11
2025-02-28 16:52:24 +0000 UTCLove where steampunk is heading, but sect ended on such a huge pivotal moment that it didn't really feel like a satisfying ending! (Take that as praise not criticism, I just want more of that universe). The implications of Jack being "found out" are so huge and I can't wait for them to be explored.
Jamie Willetts
2025-02-28 16:52:05 +0000 UTCThere is no wrong choise here. Whatever makes our dear writer the most inspired.
heylol theylol
2025-02-28 16:51:27 +0000 UTCThis is like asking what kind of eye based heroin id prefer
HandsyUncleTickles
2025-02-28 16:51:02 +0000 UTCI like your plan for space, but I still vote Steam.
Groo
2025-02-28 16:50:43 +0000 UTCI liked your sexy story too. But I feel like the steampunk one has more potential. Or at least I'm enjoying that setting more.
Cole Deucalion
2025-02-28 16:50:17 +0000 UTCSpace is due for a new book...
Michael W
2025-02-28 16:50:14 +0000 UTC🤔
Branchen
2025-02-28 16:50:07 +0000 UTCI cast my vote, I cast my spells
Third Ailing Primate
2025-02-28 16:49:52 +0000 UTC
