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The World
Tom, like all the rest of us, has his share of problems. Most of them are ones almost anybody could relate to. His boss doesn’t respect him. He’s worried that the girl he has a crush on thinks of him as just a friend. He can’t get people to stop calling him names.
Some of his problems, however, are a little more unusual. Start with the fact that a video game he bought turns out to be a trap that sends him to an alternate reality. Add in his semi-intentional membership in a group that everyone believes is plotting to destroy the universe. Toss in the fact that he’s the only person in this other world that remembers who he is or how he got there, and you can see how his life could be more difficult than most.
Fortunately, he’s got a long fuse. He has a sense of humor, and he accepts when things don’t go his way. That’s why his friends call him Doormat, and possibly why the powers that be in the fantasy universe name him Tamrood, though he’s not too sure about that one.
As Tom, or Tamrood, he takes things in stride. He can deal with people looking down on him and his crummy job. He can handle companions who think he’s ignorant just because he doesn’t know anything about the world around him. Like any gamer, he can survive a seemingly endless stream of things that want to kill him for no good reason.
You have to wonder, though, what’ll happen when something comes along that he can’t take. Because you’ve got to figure that a fuse that long must have something pretty explosive at the end.
Some of his problems, however, are a little more unusual. Start with the fact that a video game he bought turns out to be a trap that sends him to an alternate reality. Add in his semi-intentional membership in a group that everyone believes is plotting to destroy the universe. Toss in the fact that he’s the only person in this other world that remembers who he is or how he got there, and you can see how his life could be more difficult than most.
Fortunately, he’s got a long fuse. He has a sense of humor, and he accepts when things don’t go his way. That’s why his friends call him Doormat, and possibly why the powers that be in the fantasy universe name him Tamrood, though he’s not too sure about that one.
As Tom, or Tamrood, he takes things in stride. He can deal with people looking down on him and his crummy job. He can handle companions who think he’s ignorant just because he doesn’t know anything about the world around him. Like any gamer, he can survive a seemingly endless stream of things that want to kill him for no good reason.
You have to wonder, though, what’ll happen when something comes along that he can’t take. Because you’ve got to figure that a fuse that long must have something pretty explosive at the end.
268 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 5, 2010
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