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Otherland: River Of Blue Fire Tad Williams

Otherland: River Of Blue Fire By Tad Williams

Otherland: River Of Blue Fire by Tad Williams


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Summary

A groundbreaking new series from the author of the bestselling Memory, Sorrow and Thorn fantasy trilogy.

Otherland: River Of Blue Fire Summary

Otherland: River Of Blue Fire by Tad Williams

Otherland, an incredibly complex and detailed virtual reality, has appeared. Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares of its users and its creators. Vast amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have laboured to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource - its children. The story begun in OTHERLAND continues in this, the second volume of an astonishing series which is destined to become a landmark in imaginative fiction.

Otherland: River Of Blue Fire Reviews

'True speculative grandeur' - TIME OUT 'A big colorful novel full of real-world conspiracy and virtual reality wonders, with characters worth caring about' - LOCUS 'Tad Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is at writing fantasy. Best of all, however, are Williams's well-drawn sympathetic characters . . .' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Tad Williams made his name in fantasy with the immense Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy (1988-93). His Otherland quartet, opening with City of Golden Shadow (1996), is mid-21st-century SF set in an ultra-sophisticated software universe containing countless worlds. This episode features a deadly nature reserve of giant insects, a poisoned Oz, a madcap cartoon reality, London as in The War of the Worlds, 16th-century Venice, Xanadu, ancient Egypt, the Odyssey's Ithaca and the Drones Club. Otherland is the playground of the monstrously rich and unscrupulous Grail Brotherhood, who hope for on-line immortality and are abducting children's souls into their VR system. Opposing them is the enigmatic Circle, plus a handful of ordinary folk who've penetrated Otherland and are trapped there, floating from world to world on the digital river of the title. There's a spy in this group, though; Otherland's operating system is becoming unstable; the Nemesis program that hunts down software anomalies seems murderously out of control... Williams writes fluently and evocatively, conjuring up a vivid succession of virtual realities as he manipulates numerous storylines inside and outside Otherland, climaxing with multiple cliffhangers. It's slightly frustrating, though, that halfway through the series we've learned little more--especially about the tantalizing suggestion that Otherland is a metaphysical threat to real reality--than emerged in book 1. Next volume: Mountain of Black Glass.' - David Langford, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW

About Tad Williams

Former singer, shoe-seller and radio show host, Tad Williams is now a full-time writer. His MEMORY, SORROW and THORN series established him as one of the most internationally popular fantasy authors of recent years.

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GOR001575029
9781857235999
1857235991
Otherland: River Of Blue Fire by Tad Williams
Used - Good
Hardback
Little, Brown Book Group
19980702
656
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