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Okay so Youtube started recommending these videos in a genre called "HFY" or "Humanity Fuck Yeah" which, as far as I can tell, involves AI narrators reading AI-generated stories over slideshows of AI-generated images and the stories are all military sci-fi where humans are the bestest warriors the galaxy has ever seen and kill stupid evil caricature aliens 1000:1. Once in a while there's a story where an alien race does a massacre to humans which gives the humans an excuse to gloriously commit righteous genocide

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[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Turtledove

I'm amazed that you bring up Turtledove World War 2 fiction and neither of the series is the one I read! I liked his Darkness series which was basically "What if World War II but the Fantasy Manhattan Project is about breakthroughs in mathematical magic and the Fantasy Australians did it, and instead of fighter jets they have dragons, and instead of tanks they have fucking woolly rhinoceroses with canons and catapults mounted to their sides and their cover art is sick and enticing if you're 14 years old". It was cool how it tells the story from many different perspectives (but still makes it clear that Fantasy Nazis are bad) and doesn't turn it into "Fantasy America carried the entire war". There's an arc that covers the Battle of Stalingrad and it's really harrowing.

Edit: Ok not just if you're 14.

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The soundtrack to listen to while looking at these covers