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Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures none the less terrifying because they are technologised dreaming--these are dreams from which the adventurers cannot awaken and in which, if they die, they are dead...An epidemic of comatose children has led Rennie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood; two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real world money, and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume we have adventures in a mythic Ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghast-like house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy...
All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surceasse from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armoured men were terribly frail things.
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He is writing a classic of cyberspace adventure which has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures none the less terrifying because they are technologised dreaming--these are dreams from which the adventurers cannot awaken and in which, if they die, they are dead...An epidemic of comatose children has led Rennie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood; two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parent s' lawyer Ramsey follows real world money, and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume we have adventures in a mythic Ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghast-like house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy... (All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surceasse from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, )
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He is writing a classic of cyberspace adventure which has a sorrowful heart. (Roz Kaveney, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW )
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He is writing a classic of cyberspace adventure which has a sorrowful heart. (Roz Kaveney, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW )
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thoroughly enjoyed this book - a rip roaring tumbling tale that includes all sci-fi/fantasy fans dream of including both technology and "magic".
But this book develops the characters even further, and their relationships with each other, and the people with whom they are all fighting against. You spiral in deeper and deeper, until you too almost feel like you are trapped online with them, and Tad's fantastic imagination can't fail to have you living this story when you are not reading this book, and almost unable to put it down when you are!
But as usual - there is the frustration of Tad's style which is that he seems to be winding up to the conclusion of the story, to the final tumultous scenes............ and then you have to wait for him to write the end of the story.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I never thought I'd read a better story-teller than Tolkien, but since picking up The Dragonbone Chair a few years ago, Tad Williams has been an enormous source of reading pleasure for me.
The separate threads of this story run almost in parallel but also intertwine ingeniously. He teases the reader with snip bits of information and cliff hangers on one thread which keeps you reading through the other threads, each with their own individual momentum, until you're as trapped in the book as much as the main characters are trapped inside the Otherland network.
Plausable, imaginative, colourful and exciting.
And he's only up to the third book of four! I can't wait for the final chapter in this epic series.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book was absolutely amazing. The pace seems to speed up again. Otherland II was a little slow, but this volume is so exciting, that I read the whole book in two days, and can't wait for the last volume ...
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Awesome piece of Science-Fiction
As the whole of the Otherland series, this is an incredible piece of fiction: vivid, full of amazing detail and characters so real they could be alive. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Anne89
Best of the series so far...
I really enjoyed the first one but the 2nd lagged somewhat. This third installment is so good that I almost want to read it again. Read the first 2 just for this one if anything.
Published on 11 Feb 2001
Adventure, fantasy, sci-fi and total immersability! Buy it!!
Having read the authors other great works, I picked up the first volume in this series, with great expectations. Read more
Published on 4 Nov 2000
Phew! Nearly there.
Well, three down one to go. Several mysteries answered here. The mysterious female, Dread, Paul (sort of). A bit of a "twist"y ending setting up for the third. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2000
A great read. But patience is still a virtue.....
If you've get this far in the series you'll realise what a great read this is going to be. This installment continues to do justice to the series. Read more
Published on 28 April 2000 by rodney_london_baby
A surrealistic and terrifying journey through cyberspace
Ever since I picked up th first book of the series, Tad Williams has managed to keep me on the edge, wanting more and getting dissapointed when the book ends and we have to wait... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 1999
excellent but we now have to wait for the end of the story!
I thought the book was excellent but was very disappointed when I reached the end and found that this is not the end of the story. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 1999
Best in the Otherland series so far
Fantastic. This third volume of the Otherland series made for truly excellent reading. I enjoyed it more than the first two volumes and was unable to put it down. Read more
Published on 22 Sep 1999
Superb
An excellent continuation of the story. Some very interesting twists that keep you waiting for more. It is a shame that we have got to wait so long until the next one comes out.
Published on 14 Sep 1999
The best of series so far....
This book adds some really nice twists to the plot,I would hate to say anymore to give any of the plot away.The ending is brilliant and has left be waiting for more. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 1999
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