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Otherland: City of Golden Shadow Bk. 1 (Hardcover)

by Tad Williams (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 770 pages
  • Publisher: Legend (5 Dec 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099683016
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099683018
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.4 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 296,058 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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'True speculative grandeur' - TIME OUT 'The ultimate virtual-reality saga, borrowing motifs from cyberpunk, mythology and world history' - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 'On an epic scale . . . a big colourful new novel full of real-world conspiracy and virtual reality wonders, with characters worth caring about' - LOCUS 'One of the best works of science fiction I've ever read' - KATHARINE KERR
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling! This book will keep you up 'til the early hours, 30 Sep 1999
By Madchu (Lancashire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass Bk. 3 (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.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Amazing, 7 Sep 1999
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This review is from: Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass Bk. 3 (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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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly fanastic story - in fact more of an epic!, 27 Aug 1999
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I didn't realise how immersed I was going to become in this book when I first bought it! This book has a very strong storyline but also a wealth of detail which means you can really imagine that Earth could become like this in X years. For Tad Williams to think up this story is already impressive but to hold together this much detail and storyline threads is a real feat! And the author doesn't make the mistake of including too much technical detail which I sometimes can't perfectly follow. Having read both this and its sequel "River of Blue Fire" I can't wait for "Mountain of Black Glass" to be published. Tad Williams fantasy quartet 'Memory, sorrow & thorn" was excellent and this future science fiction quartet will be its equal at least!
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