I've been reading Elf Only Inn tonight, and I really enjoy it. See, it takes place in a chat room. So all the characters are various stupid scifi/fantasy archetypes - the elven ranger, a vulcan, duke nukem, and so on. But they're also real people pretending to be these things, and the story never errs too much on the side of either room stuff or weird stuff. It starts out fairly juvenilely (as most of these do), but the quality ramps up fairly quickly. Plus, this one has a very accurate comment on male/female relationships.
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