The Far Place
Self-Published
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Description
Clayton was here, and now he finds himselfelsewherein the most dangerous way possible.
Arriving on another world and getting a class werenormalcompared to where he is now… Standing at the edge of the rules of reality, dithering on the border of a place wheremagic itselfexperiments and grows. Where it creates, destroys, and evolves as it deepens The System, and expands the borders of what is possible.
Armed with a spear and a class that can read the lines of Fate, Clayton embarks on a journey together with his three companions, their guide the promise of power and riches beyond anything they can imagine.IFthey can survive long enough to grasp them, overpower the inevitable chaos, and fight through infinite -veryeager to kill them- dangers to make their way back from The Far Places.
Based vaguely on Minecraft’sFar Lands,The Far Place is a combat driven story with light base-building built on top of a liminal-world journey through a world that follows no rules but its own ever-changing laws.
Information
- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2025
- Author
- R.C. Joshua
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- Rating
- 4.8/ 5.0
- Followers
- 307
- Views
- 7,666
Chapters(4 total)
What readers say about The Far Place
“This author's stories are always worth reading. The settings are fully conceptualized. The characters have clear motivation and growth. The litrpg aspect of it has numbers. They may actually mean something, but the author doesn't spell out the "crunch" ef…”
GezornenRoyal Road5.0 / 5“Our hero is under a compulsion - to go into the Far Places, a place which is beyond all borders, and, hopefully, should fate be willing, should luck provide, should skill meet circumstance, survive. Tight fight scenes, mystery, and split-second decisions. S…”
RetrospectmeRoyal Road5.0 / 5
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Community Reviews(7)
- GezornenRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0This author's stories are always worth reading.
The settings are fully conceptualized. The characters have clear motivation and growth. The litrpg aspect of it has numbers. They may actually mean something, but the author doesn't spell out the "crunch" effects of those number directly.
As to this book it is completed. You can finish it. No multiple years of reading with little plot development.
The characters develop quickly and reaaonably.
His other works are also worth reading, and completed. But this one will give a good example of their style in a one shot book as opposed to a multi-book endeavor. - RetrospectmeRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Our hero is under a compulsion - to go into the Far Places, a place which is beyond all borders, and, hopefully, should fate be willing, should luck provide, should skill meet circumstance, survive.
Tight fight scenes, mystery, and split-second decisions. Strange worlds, strange rules, strange people.
What's not to love? - Gabby_SilverRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0This is a story that feels hard to opine on without giving away plot points. So I won't.
I will talk about how it made me feel.
It's R.C. we're talking about, I knew it would be nice. But I wasn't expecting to come away thinking about my future and seriously considering the kind of person I need to be in order to get there. - 7FireStormsRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I read The Far Place by R.C. Joshua, and I loved it, which isn't surprising because i'm a sucker for the "world fraying at the edges of reality" trope. It was pretty well written, though there were quite a lot of grammatical errors or missing spaces, especially for a book on kindle. The story was strong, the characters likeable, and the vibes were excellent. My biggest gripe by far is how short it is and how many loose threads are left hanging, like (spoilers) The system straight up being tempered with by "something the system understands but does not fully control", which is *never* mentioned again, or The Far Place being described as getting more and more crazy as you get closer to the edge, but we never really see that as we stick pretty close to human lands., and finally, I feel like the author could've gone a lot crazier on the biomes. There were a few interesting ones *mentioned*, but those that were actually explored were mostly something you could've found in a regular fantasy world. This is a place where things are supposed to break, so why not plains of flesh, mountains that get smaller as you climb them, places made of solid light, etc...
Overall I really enjoyed it, so much so in fact that I didn't see time pass and ended up reading it all in one night, at the cost of my sleep TT. - HiddenslothRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Very well written with solid ideas behind everything. Gets over the obnoxious idea of this random kid being the best in the world by giving the MC genuine humility and blissful ignorance of his place in the world.
Would be nice to see the back half rewritten into something much bigger. - HyrielRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0This has been sitting in my Follow list for a while. That was until today when I got the stub notice. So I read the book, in a 12 hour period (wasn't 12 hours to read) and I really liked it. The system stuff is just the right mix of there but not all encompassing number crunching, the world is pretty neat and the characters are great. I kinda wish there was more, but it did end on a very satisfactory note. If you're reading this post sub and have a kindle sub, go read this book 😄
- Carl AntuarRoyal Road★★★★ 4.0This story is not an epic, but it takes the smart approach to that: Take an interesting premise, develop it, then wrap up.
The characters have distinct personalities and roles in the story, they are challenged but rise above it in the end. It's not groundbreaking stuff, but it is solid prose by an experienced and thoughtful writer, worth the read.
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