#the administration series

[mannafrancis]

Books out of print

Just to update everyone, following the closure of Casperian Books the Administration paperback and ebooks are no longer available for sale.

I'm exploring future options for them, and I'll let you know if there's any further news. In the mean time, thanks to everyone who bought a copy of any of the books.

[paramorin]

hi! I stumbled upon Mind Fuck by a friend's recommendation, but after checking out the author's website I couldn't tell if the series was overall finished or not. I don't like starting a series when I don't know if there will be a resolution for the main couple at the end or not. could you maybe help out? :)

Hi! Short answer is, it's finished enough to read. That is, there may be additional books written in the future, who knows, but there are no plot bits that remain unresolved. If there are any additional books written at any point, it would mean a new plot, probably. Unlike a lot of book series, in this series each book is self-contained. There are developments, so reading in order is advised, but you can stop at any point. Which also means that if you finish the first book (or the second, or the third) and decide you don't want to read further, there are no cliff hangers and you don't have to go looking for spoilers.

So, I recommend reading the first one, and if you enjoy it enough that you want to spend more time in this world, with these characters, read more. On a side note, a lot of things that were scifi during the writing of the first book no longer are (like touchscreen gadgets, "screens" in the books, or automated voice-to-text transcribing). I suspect that the more retro-futuristic the series becomes, the less likely additional sequels become.

if you choose to read it, I hope you like it!

[pancake-cookies-acorn-jelly]

Reading The Administration 1:

Oh, God, are you stupid or what? He's not going to change! He's dangerous, Warrick, you need to leave.

Reading The Administration 9:

Oh, God, are you stupid or what? He's not going to change! He's dangerous, Toreth, you need to leave.

[darksidedivas]

Like all good scifi, Star Wars has been trying to warn us since 1977. Andor just dropped the space wizards and started spelling the warning out explicitly.

Like here, where Nemik describes exactly what the Trump administration is doing right now:

[bembwashere]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL

THE LAST TF2 COMIC IS OUT. I REPEAT, THE LAST TEAM FORTRESS 2 COMIC HAS BEEN RELEASED INTO THE WEBSITE.

[critzkrieg]

this panel and the subsequent ones were so powerful. firstly because medic, the guy who always leaps at the chance to gleefully kill people and then meddle with their corpses, seemed like he was ready to genuinely try to save the administrator's life. heavy has to stop him. secondly, these people who take thrill in crassly murdering people every day were completely stunned by the gravity of their powerful and mysterious employer, who they knew next to nothing about until 3 seconds ago, dying in front of them so filled with rage and spite.

there's something wrong with all of the mercs but they haven't seen ANYTHING like this. keeping someone BARELY alive, hooking his eyes open, for 100 years just to rub his failures in his face every day, only to finally both die unfulfilled and angry. it's like they also sensed the tone of the first 6 comics drastically shifted to something none of us could have predicted. they have even less context than the reader as to why the administrator went through all of this trouble and i think they all have some kind of sad pity for her, watching her die in this sorry state.

[clonebrainrot]

While the economy slowly and sometimes not that slowly falls apart around me at least I will have

*checks notes*

Andor to Cheer me up. Cause Andor isn’t depressing at all (I like angst and trauma in fictional characters)

[brendonbrown]

(Sony and Xbox - News is American)

[nando161mando]

[mannafrancis]

Are you still writing? And if so, what could we expect to see in the future? Plus I noted that you don't plan to write any more Administration books - what was your thinking on that? Not trying to convince you differently (although I loved them so!), just curious as to your perspective.

Hi!

I'm not writing at the moment, I'm afraid.

I won't say never to writing any more Administration books. I'd just need to have a new idea for a book that excited me enough to want to write it. So, you never know!

[rpgmaking]

some more time skip pauling

[briabooknerd]

[blconnoisseur]

I want to eat glass

[deadpresidents]

As a follow-up to the previous post, here is Nathaniel Hawthorne's dedication of his 1863 book Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches to his former classmate, longtime friend, and former President Franklin Pierce, which Hawthorne insisted upon including in the book against the wishes of his publisher and adamant opposition from Hawthorne's friends and colleagues.

[avaisnerdytoo]

"You're sitting here defending a system that's ready to set the world on fire, maybe you're the one in a cult."

Been thinking about this scene a lot lately... With everything and all, but especially with the recent plane crashes...

[gophergal]

ok so a doodle with a target audience of one before I go to bed

Just some team fort characters cast as characters in the Seven Deadly Sins vocaloid series by MOTHY. Here we have the Administrator in Judgement of Corruption (Greed), Demoman in The Muzzle Of Nemesis (Wrath), and Medic in Gift From the Princess Who Brings Sleep (Sloth)

ok night