# Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte

3 Hacker News commenters recommended Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for its alien, beautiful atmosphere and call it excellent, and at least one reader went on to buy more books by the author.

## Why people recommend it

- Alien and beautiful atmosphere (1 comments): "Its very alien and beautiful in the realm of the tv show Scavenger's Reign" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014439))
- Called excellent by readers (1 comments): "stages of rot is also excellent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46406278))
- Led to buying more books (1 comments): "Amazing recommendation. I ended up purchasing some of their recent books." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025126))

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- [Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/persepolis.md): 16 recommend
- [Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson](https://hackerapproved.com/p/transmetropolitan.md): 5 recommend
- [Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou](https://hackerapproved.com/p/logicomix.md): 5 recommend
- [Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gender-queer.md): 4 recommend
- [Frontier by Guillaume Singelin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/frontier.md): 4 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/9187325268?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9789187325267) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte", https://hackerapproved.com/p/stages-of-rot/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).