Farmer, Tom Larcombe
Farmer, Tom Larcombe
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Farmer

Author: Tom Larcombe

Narrator: Derek Shoales

Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/31/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Eddie Hunter is about at the end of his rope, so when he stumbles across an ad looking for people to farm in Long Term Immersion in the game Light Online, he can't believe his luck. Once hired he enters the game as soon as he can. Unbeknownst to him, though, the person that hired him is also doing illicit research on the pods that he and the other farmers are using.

The research is rapidly discovered by the AIs that monitor the game and shut down, forcefully, by the company that runs Light Online. But the code that runs those pods has been altered, and until it's fixed Eddie and the others can't log out. Although the devs assure him that it won't take long to fix, Eddie's not so sure of that himself.

Eddie entered the game to make money in real life, and as he tries to do that he finds himself getting entangled deeper and deeper in the game and with the people he meets there. But when he discovers a side of the game that the previous players had apparently never even considered, he knows he has to find a way to stay in the game.

About Tom Larcombe

Tom Larcombe was introduced to fantasy books at a young age. Those that were aimed more at children hooked him in, but not well enough for him to remember their names at this point in his life. Their draw led him to books aimed more for the adult reader and so he found himself, at around age eight, starting in on Steven R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series and The Hobbit, followed shortly thereafter by the Lord of the Rings books. His reading tastes have never looked back, although they have broadened to include science fiction and the occasional nonfiction book. He lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with his wife, two daughters, three cats, and a variable number of chickens.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on June 23, 2021

Lets start by our standard Harrison checklist -Main character from Michigan: that's a bingo -Drug abuse: very little drug use, shocker -Alcoholism: relative to his other works lighter alcohol use (again relative scale) -A tour of western states: Hmm not to the extent of his later work, but certainly a f......more

Goodreads review by Timothy on March 13, 2012

Short, bittersweet, and simply superb - I "discovered" Jim Harrison while in college thirty-some years ago when I read of his first novel, Wolf: A False Memoir. When he mentioned Reed City in the first line of that book, I was hooked. I never imagined that the little town where I grew up would ever......more

Goodreads review by John on May 05, 2016

If you are old enough to have some regrets, to have done some things, and left other things undone that you should have done, but have the good sense to not be morose about it, this is for you. Farmer/teacher Joseph engages in behavior that hurts someone he loves. But even though it is behavior that......more

Goodreads review by M. on July 08, 2020

[URL not allowed] It has been several years since I first read Farmer, but I must admit I had no idea how good the novel was back then. I suppose this current revelation has everything to do with my advancing age, the fact that I have had similar experiences, and that existenti......more

Goodreads review by B. R. on March 08, 2017

I much enjoyed this short novel (160 pages) by one of my favorite writers, Jim Harrison. The story is set in the farm country of northern Michigan circa 1955-56 and the main character, the 43 yr old Joesph, is going through something of a mid-life crisis. He feels like he is doing a bit of a dance w......more