Proxima Legends, Vol 1

Fantasy Online, Books 1 & 2

By: Harmon Cooper

Narrated by: Jeff Hays

Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

After the death of his best friend, Ryuk logs into the online fantasy world of Tritania in hopes of seeing her again.

Joined by a cantankerous goblin, a famous Swedish gamer, and a dragon, his guild sets out on an epic quest to find Tamana. Despite pressures from the real world and a mysterious faction known as the Shinigami, Ryuk uncovers a mind-blowing secret....

But the adventure is just beginning.

Upon defeating a literal big, bad wolf, the members of the guild are framed for attempted murder and imprisoned in the Empress’ dungeon. With no way out, one of them is forced to reveal a secret that will change their standing in Tritania forever.

Level up, recruit, loot, and scoot. And cue the shenanigans.

Fans of LitRPG are sure to love the comedy, mayhem, intrigue, and epic fantasy world-building found in the Proxima Legends series!

About the series

Dive to the Proxima Galaxy in this blazingly fun LitRPG series about a Japanese gamer and the guild he forms to save a digital world and battle his real-world Yakuza brother. Expect JRPG-inspired stats, unique classes, epic battles, and offbeat fantasy humor for fans of everything from Rick and Morty to Dungeon Crawler Carl. Originally published as the Fantasy Online series in 2017, Proxima Legends, Vol 1 includes the first and second book in the series, as well as a novella starring Hiccup the goblin. For audiobook listeners, the audio from the legendary Jeff Hays of Soundbooth Theater shows why his narration is top-notch. For other audiobooks narrated by Jeff Hays and set in the Proxima Galaxy, check out The Feedback Loop, Monster Hunt NYC, and The Last Warrior of Unigaea.

Praise for Proxima Legends:

"With incredible depth and lifelike characters, this book had me breaking out in laughter on more than one occasion! Drop whatever you're doing and buy this book—you won't regret it!" (Luke Chmilenko, author of the Ascend Online and Savage Dominion and co-author of Iron Prince series)

"The futuristic, adult-rated, JPRG universe gamers have been waiting for!" (Apollos Thorne, author of the Codename: Freedom, Underworld, and Heaven's Law series)

"This is one of the few LitRPG novels where I thought the real-world story line was as interesting as the game one." (Ramon Mejia, host of The LitRPG Podcast and author of the Mechanical Crafter series)

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A pleasantly unique story

Proxima Legends, Vol 1 is a great book with multiple likable characters that you follow, An interesting story that will keep you entertained when following the main character in the VR game, Proxima, and when he is in the actual world. The main protagonist and those who are around in throughout the book are enjoyable and tend to even each other out. The book also has an interesting idea with the two universes (Proxima and the real world) crossing over into each other, with mysterious circumstances occurring leading to a particular group of Proxima gamers' deaths. The NPCs in the Proxima universe having knowledge of the real world was an interesting idea that added to the character's personalities and mystique of the world. There is romance in the book, but I did not find it getting in the way of my enjoyment of the main story.


Overall if you like the author’s summary and don’t mind some romance or Yakuza business, I encourage you to check this book out! It has a unique story, a fascinating idea when it comes to the universes and other games in this universe crossing over, a fantastic narrator, some references to the other books that the author has written, and a witty mither-ficken goblin named Hiccup!

Ficking Fantastic!

These books were so fun! The kind of amazing action and comedy that only the brilliant mind of Harmon Cooper can think up, and the pure gold performance from Jeff Hays that perfectly brings it to life! Can't wait for the next one!

So much fun...

I love this series. The Proxima galaxy is full of wacky fun and adventure. Highly recommended.

great narration from Jeff again

not a must listen, but a good listen. Looking forward to seeing how the author grows from here.

Wild Fickin' Ride!

This is high-quality entertainment, right here! Fun writing, good comedy, and excellent narration. If you like funny litRPG books, I think this will scratch that itch for you. It's part of a larger 'universe' of book series, but there's no need to have read anything else to get it. The Feedback Loop series would definitely provide reference points, though. Hiccup is a special kind of trip, and FeeTwix is my spirit animal. The humor and action are fast-paced. I laughed just about the whole time.

Came for the title, stayed for the goblin

While the story itself is great and interesting, the narration by Jeff Hays just brings this to the next level!
I love that the mc is neither overpowered, extremely smart, nor hyper-charismatic. Instead, he's thrown into an action scene that is happening around him with a great supporting cast of strong characters (aka interesting personalities with clear ideas, characters, and unique behavior) and he can only decide on the direction the party will follow.
I would highly recommend this series to litrpg fans as it has all the great things that we love yet puts the emphasis on the world-building and character progression that is often missing from many books in the genre. Really looking forward to the next books in the series!

Yet another fun time!

this series is one of my favorite series! glad it's back and better than ever! the final bit of the book is always my favorite

Great addition to proxima universe

if you loved feedback loop this is a must listen! if you haven't listened to it yet get both series. the story has sad parts, serious parts, and hilarious parts 10 of 5

Such a great series!

I’ve read and listened to Fantasy Online Hyperborea and Fantasy Online Polynya—the two books that are included in this the first volume of the rebranded Proxima Legends series—multiple times. In fact I re-read them as recently as last month, but when I got a chance to listen to the recently released audio version I couldn’t resist since it includes a previous unreleased bonus short story. The story of Ryuk and the mitherfickers is just so much fun. On the outside world we have the intrigue and conflict of sibling rivalry and the bizarre happenings of people thinking that are being attacked by creatures from the digital world. And in the digital world we have the hilarious and over the top adventure of the mitherfickers looking for answers to what is happening. Such a great cast of characters, with Hiccup the goblin being the ultimate comic relief (be warned much of it is fart humor…which I find hilarious, at least within the context of this series) As I mentioned, this collection also includes a short story prequel to the series that is focused solely on Hiccup! For those that don’t know, this series is connected with a number of other series by Harmon Cooper (The Feedback Loop/ Last Warrior of Unigaea/ Monster Hunt NYC), with cameos from a several characters from those other books. You don’t have to have read those books in order to enjoy this series, but I highly recommend them all. I can’t wait for volume 2 of Proxima Legends as it will include not only The Runestones of Tritinakh (the 3rd book of the original Fantasy Online series) but also an all new book continuing the journey of Ryuk and Co. Can’t wait! As for the audio narration, it’s top notch. If you’ve never experienced a book narrated by Jeff Hays you are in for a major treat. He’s a modern day Mel Blanc, giving each and every character their own voice and personality. If you like humorous adventure stories and have any interest experiencing a LitRPG this is a great place to start.

A funny and compelling adventure.

Don’t let this one pass ya by. You it’s really funny with lots of action.
Gotta love Hicup.