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After a strange ritual at his hospice job in a Wisconsin VA hospital, Richter wakes up in the Land, a high-fantasy game world with floating status screens. He becomes the human lord of a small mist village of forest sprites and has to level up, recruit allies, and hold the village against goblins.
Aleron Kong has published more than nine main Land novels, plus several novellas and side stories. The series continues. New volumes typically release annually.
Yes. Aleron Kong's The Land series is widely cited as a foundational LitRPG, alongside Sufficiently Advanced Magic and the early works of the genre. The series shaped many conventions of modern progression fantasy.
The Land: Founding was written by Aleron Kong, published in 2015 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
The Land: Founding is 294 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Land: Founding takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
The Land: Founding is a standalone novel by Aleron Kong, not part of a series.
The Land: Founding is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
