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u/Peewee223 · 6 pointsr/HFY

The Two Year Emperor ($9, but the free version can be found here) also fits. A human is summoned and forced to lead a nation that runs on D&D-ish rules.

Spoiler alert: D&D-ish rulesets are completely, utterly broken when there's no GM to step in.

Oh, and there's Erfworld which also fits if you can stand webcomics - a WH40K(ish) player gets summoned and is forced to act as general for his summoner. This is much closer to "human as familiar", the others in this post are closer to "human summoned by magic is the prophesied hero"

Also the Wizardry series by Rick Cook - a hacker is summoned into a world where magic is deterministic.

u/GaBeRockKing · 6 pointsr/rational

MoL is a member of the groundhog's day loop subgenre. Check out Re:Zero, ERASED (AKA boku dake ga Inai Mache), and Edge of Tommorrow (also known as "All you need is kill") for non-fanfic examples. Also check out the peggy sue and groundhog peggy sue pages for when the time loop is on a significantly larger scale. For some reason I can't find a whole lot of non-fanfic examples (I've probably just forgotten stuff I read a long time ago) but there are oodles of fanfic with that premise.

Are you willing to read MLP:FiM fanfiction? I have a bunch of excellent completed fics to recommend for groundhog's day loops. If you like naruto, there's Time Braid and Chuunin exam day of the top of my head for loops, though they come with caveats: Time Braid is rather overty sexual, and Chuunin exam day is pure tripe written by an author I hate (so I only mention it because of its popularity.) Naruto also has incredibly amounts of peggy sue fics, but they tend to be either fairly blatant wish fulfilment or incomplete. I know for a fact that harry potter has tons of both peggy sue and time loop fics, but I don't really read that fandom much. Worm has a bunch of peggy sue fics, but they're all (or almost all) incomplete.

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On the other hand, Hero's War is an "uplift" fic. The only non-fanfic example I can think of off the top of my head is Light on Shattered Water which I'm about halfway through. Aside from that, check spacebattles for ASOIAF SIs: they almost all tend to be of this variety. Again, I also have a bunch of MLP:FiM fics with similar premises.

For sort-of-similar works, check out Erfworld and Two Year Emperor for modern-person-gets-put-in-charge-of-fantasy-land fiction.

Spacebattles really likes both of these kinds of fics, so you may have more luck posting a thread there.

u/ZeroNihilist · 5 pointsr/rational

Responses in the order in which I thought of them within each category (don't take it as an order of preference or anything). Lots of fanfic in this list because it's what people tend to write. Assume they're rational unless stated otherwise.

Note that "rationalist" means "rational + demonstrates analytical techniques", so I note where that's applicable (if I remember; a lot of this is fuzzy due to sheer quantity).

Finished:

  • The Waves Arisen, rationalist Naruto fanfiction
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMoR), rationalist Harry Potter fanfiction, possibly the ur-example of the concept of rationalist fanfiction (probably wrong about that however)
  • Shadows of the Limelight, original story (it's true, I do read original stories) about a world where fame literally grants superpowers (by one of this subreddit's moderators, /u/alexanderwales)
  • Worm, original story about an alternate Earth where superheroes are forged from "trigger events" (moments of intense emotional or physical trauma) by /u/Wildbow
  • Pact, original story about modern magic users and creatures where words have power and consequences (also by Wildbow)
  • The Two Year Emperor, original story (kinda) about an ordinary, albeit clever man transported to a world that runs on Dungeons and Dragons rules as written by /u/eaglejarl; (this one is no longer available for free, there's a purchase link on Amazon here if that sounds like your thing)
  • The Metropolitan Man, Superman/Lex Luthor fanfiction (by alexanderwales again; the next three are all by him)
  • A Bluer Shade of White, Frozen fanfiction (yes, it is rational)
  • The Last Christmas, Santa Claus fanfiction (ditto)
  • Branches on the Tree of Time, Terminator fanfiction
  • Fine Structure, original story about superheroes that appear yearly, doubling in power (and the damage done in their tumultuous "trigger") each time; the whole thing is so much more than just that, but I don't want to spoil it (by Sam Hughes, who wrote the next two as well)
  • Ra, original story about magic analysed as science; again, it goes on to be much more but I don't want to spoil it
  • Sam Hughes' author page at the SCP Foundation wiki, I recommend reading his entries from 2015 (you may want to read the Foundation's about page and some of the top rated pages from the wiki to get a feel for the setting first if you're new to SCP)
  • Friendship is Optimal, My Little Pony fanfiction about an AI that is definitely not horrifying, no siree, just your average friendly AI over here
  • Cenotaph, Worm fanfiction with a small deviation from canon
  • Wake, sequel to Cenotaph

    Updating often:

  • Significant Digits, HPMoR metafic which is very different in character (it has a summary of HPMoR if you don't want to read it, but obviously heavily spoils the plot of that fic)
  • Pokemon: The Origin of Species, rationalist Pokemon fanfiction
  • r Animorphs: The Reckoning, Animorphs fanfiction by /u/TK17Studios
  • Mother of Learning, original story about a student mage caught in a time loop
  • Team Anko, Naruto fanfiction by eaglejarl (who wrote The Two Year Emperor above, so you can take this as a free sample of writing style if you wish)
  • Twig, original story about emotionally savvy, enhanced children fighting biopunk monsters in a world where the British defeated the American colonies using biological superweapons (by Wildbow)
  • Lighting Up the Dark, Naruto fanfiction by /u/Velorien
  • Juncture, original story about all sorts of time travel tropes by /u/AHatfulOfBomb

    Updating rarely, possibly abandoned:

  • Harry Potter and the Natural 20, Harry Potter/Dungeons and Dragons crossover fanfiction (protagonist is an original character and a munchkin to his core)
  • Weaver 9, a Worm metafiction which swaps the role of two important characters (casting a significant villain in the role as, er, "hero")

    I can go into more detail about what separates the Naruto/Harry Potter fanfictions on request. They all have their charms but differ quite a lot in theme and characterisation.

    I've also probably forgotten a whole bunch of things. Apologies also if I got authors wrong or missed somebody who's active on this subreddit (I don't remember usernames for everyone who is, sadly).

    There's also a lot of great one-shots on the subreddit, some in the challenge threads that get posted every two weeks.
u/DCarrier · 5 pointsr/AskScienceFiction

Unfortunately, that story is no longer available for free. You can buy it for $9.00 if you want to read it anyway. Also, here's the TV Tropes page.