Reddit reviews Rust: One
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Reddit reviews Rust: OneWe found 3 Reddit comments about Rust: One. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Horror author here: I'm self-pubbing a small town horror series called Rust that's been pretty well received. It's a mystery/body horror saga, and I'm pumping out book 4 as we speak.
u/authorsahunt is also one to watch out for - his book Malus Domestica is a scorcher.
Having grown up in the 70s and 80s, I'm pretty tired of the elves, dwarves, orcs, and humans motif. To me, the term "fantasy" means "realms of the utter fantastic." So by comparison to that, Tolkien-esque worlds feel utterly mundane and don't hold my interest without a major kick in the premise pants.
Similarly, I'm tired of the knee-deep swamps of vampire and werewolf cultures in urban fantasy. That's what appealed to me about S.A. Hunt's The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree, or Christopher Ruz's Rust. Magical gunslingers fighting steam-powered mechs? Cool. An afterlife full of Lovecraftian nightmares? Awesome. Anything but more of the quasi-medieval hick-with-powers yarn.
Paradoxically, it seems to me that the very authors given greatest licence to explore the bizarre seem the most trapped by the history of what has come before. Myself included. Once I've finished my current series (later this year) my next project is going to kick the stops out of convention and hit the world with something really unusual. Or at least, I hope it will. I'm still working on the details.
It's not really a "collection", it's a horror serial, but my favorite horror read on Kindle is Christopher Ruz's RUST series. I sort of think of it indirectly as a "collection" because he publishes an omnibus edition of all the shorts (called "episodes") as a omnibus edition called a "season".
But yeah, he's up there with the likes of Joe Hill, I think. He's DAMN good.