Aspiring Rationalist Fiction
A collection of aspiring rationalist fiction, somewhat broadly construed. Please contribute!
Bookmarked items are ones I know and particularly recommend, while works attempts to snag everything (including, for example, works where I'm not interested in the fandom or the premise).
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If Bruce Wayne were a rationalist
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Truman Burbank doesn't know he lives in a TV show. Can his father's secret book set him free?
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A rational romance story. Our teenage main character is carefully considering whether or not she should date her gaming buddy. Perhaps she is considering it too carefully.
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r!Animorphs: The Reckoning by WhatWouldEnderDo
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
03 Jul 2021
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"You know who does have brains, though?” Marco continued. “The Yeerks. Maybe a thousand of them already. A thousand human brains, a thousand slaves, except those slaves can’t even THINK without their masters knowing about it. There is nothing standing in their way except us—did you get that? This isn’t some movie, where humanity’s going to rise up and pull some bullshit trick out of its ass. The Yeerks are WINNING. Did you not see Elfangor get eaten? Do you not understand the stakes? He was coming to destroy the planet because he thought that might be the only way to stop them."
Also posting on RoyalRoad.com as of August 2025
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Passionate sceptic Marinette Dupain-Cheng and cynical teen model Adrien Agreste are offered superpowers in return for protecting Paris from a newly risen supervillain. Marinette is too curious to say no. Adrien reasons that at least it can’t make his miserable life any worse.
An attempt at a rational fic taking place in the Miraculous Ladybug universe.
(More character tags will be added as the story progresses.)
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The first several sections of Luminosity are very similar to canon in terms of the events that occur, although aspects of Bella's character, and her internal monologue, differ strikingly.
A few thousand words in, the plot is unrecognizeable.
The history and character of the Twilight world are intact in Luminosity up to the point where the story begins, with one exception: Bella's a rational self-awareness-junkie with a penchant for writing down everything that crosses her mind in a notebook. She maintains many of the traits and dispositions of canon - and Luminosity is a Bella/Edward story - but she's a distinctly different character.
Luminosity was inspired in part by Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, in which Harry is a scientifically minded and sharp-witted boy who was brought up by Petunia and her alternate-universe professor husband. Luminosity also draws on much of the material in a sequence of blog posts under the same title, also written by Alicorn.
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Bookmarked by celer
05 Jun 2022
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One of the genre-codifiers of rationalist fiction, and still excellent and very much worth reading.
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Twelve years ago, the Fourth Hokage gave his life to seal Kyubey, the Nine-Brained Demon Fox, into the infant Naruto. Now, the time has come for a smarter, more creative Naruto to take on a world in which quick thinking and a solid grasp of strategy are worth a dozen rare techniques, and a brilliant mind can challenge even the deepest darkness.
Inspired by an omake in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
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Vampirism as a Treatment for Congenital Conditions by expungesinertance
Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Luminosity
28 Aug 2024
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When Meg met an attractive if awkward stranger in a bar, "vampire" was so far down her list of hypotheses she wouldn't have even assigned it a probability.
Bookmarked by celer
05 Jun 2022
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Cute Luminosity fanfic about a stubborn and inventive woman. Clever!
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The Foundation has a test for mental fortitude.
Bookmarked by celer
05 Jun 2022
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Oof. Good. Hard-hitting. Recommended.
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Short flash AU of the Baby-Sitters club characters Claudia and Kristy if they grew up to become Bay Area rationalists.
I've got another little chapter I can add about Mary-Anne, but it needs a bit of polish.
Just something I wrote for a bit of fun a while ago, and with the new netflix series I thought I should share it.
Bookmarked by celer
05 Jun 2022
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Short and funny, good for anyone who's used to our slice of the Valley and is a fan of the series.