J. Robert Lennon, professor of literatures in English, has a short story in Lit Hub, "How I Spent My Plague Year Inside a Video Game," about finding a home away from home in Fallout 76:
"Now, through my efforts in the virtual world, I had managed to create a home that, though imperfect, could be maintained without assistance from anyone, despite the malevolence and unpredictability of the environment. Could this be real? Could my in-game homesteading have transferred, somehow, to my actual life?"
Read the full story here.
"How I Spent My Plague Year Inside a Video Game" is from Lennon's 2021 collection, Let Me Think: Stories.
J. Robert Lennon is the author of three story collections, Pieces For The Left Hand, See You in Paradise, and Let Me Think, and nine novels, including Familiar, Broken River, and Subdivision. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere, and his criticism in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Nation, and The London Review of Books.
