/lit/ - Literature

>fully fleshed out account of the discovery of a material afterlife using 19th century physics

>The British colonize it

>Soviets build a god with the souls of the worker-dead using Lenin's consciousness as the kernel

>industrial revolution progresses with eschatological tech

>Ruins of abandoned chthonic civilizations millennia old litter the afterlife with no explanation

>also introduced me to the fact that an IRL club of elite Victorian scientist-spiritualists (including the literal Prime Minister) successfully conspired with the spirits of their dead colleagues, who claimed via medium to have innovated a science of soul-eugenics, to ritually bring into being a messianic spirit child

it's like a 6/10 desu the core spy elements are never suspenseful but the worldbuilding is great