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1. TAD WILLIAMS OTHERLAND CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW FULL
2. TAD WILLIAMS OTHERLAND CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW SERIES

The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. Shrouded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. This first volume in a memorizing story takes us to our own near-future when a global conspiracy at the highest levels threatens to sacrifice our Earth for the promise of a far more exclusive place – Otherland, a universe where any fantasy can be made real, but which is ruled by Earth's wealthiest and most ruthless power brokers, The Grail Brotherhood. Now he opens a whole new dimension of the imagination with OTHERLAND: City of Golden " The ultimate virtual-reality saga, borrowing motifs from cyberpunk, mythology, and world history.The highly successful Tailchaser's Song and his magnificent, best-selling trilogy, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, brought Tad Williams worldwide acclaim as a master of fantasy. Best of all, however, are Williams's well-drawn sympathetic characters." ― Publishers Weekly " Tad Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is at writing fantasy. Highly recommended." ― Absolute Magnitude " A wonderful mixture of visual imagery and movement.once again Tad Williams paints us a picture so vivid and real that it becomes three dimensional. "Otherland has sparked a phenomenon, drawing even fans who don't normally read science fiction with a mix of futurism, fantasy, and social criticism." ― Metro Santa Cruz

TAD WILLIAMS OTHERLAND CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW FULL

"On an epic scale, and most impressive of all (1996's SF novels), is Otherland, a big colorful novel full of real-world conspiracy and virtual reality wonders, with characters worth caring about." ― Locus

TAD WILLIAMS OTHERLAND CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW SERIES

Otherland is one of the best works of science fiction I've ever read." ―Katharine Kerr, author of the Dragon Mage series In this intricate geography of the mind Williams tells a cracking good story, but even as the suspense builds, you come to realize that you're seeing a strangely familiar world―ours as it might come to be. "This brilliantly crafted book delivers even more than its title promises: not one other land but many come to life here, each engrossing, glittering, and dangerous. A dazzling book." ―Melanie Rawn, author of Dragon Prince "Irresistible characters, challenging ideas, an intricate, and startlingly possible plot― everything any reader of SF or fantasy could ask for in a novel, with gorgeous writing besides. Tolkien'." ―Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods " Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists working in what is so often, and so inaccurately, described as 'the tradition of J.R.R. The answers will only be found in Otherland. Is he part of The Grail Brotherhood? Does he oppose them? Or, as he sits like a spider at the center of a vast web, does he have ambitions of his own? However, youth and frailty are not enough to get you excused from saving the world.Īnd Mister Sellars, a strange old man on a military base, a prisoner of both the government and his own body, may be the greatest mystery of all. As he flees from the bloody battlefields of World War I to a castle in the sky, and onward to lands beyond imagining, he must not only evade his terrifying pursuers, but solve the terrible riddle of his own identity.įourteen-year-old Orlando is also the invincible barbarian Thargorm, but only in his imagination. Paul Jonas is lost, seemlingly adrift in space and time. With the heart of a poet and the soul of a shaman, he will journey with Renie on this quest into the very heart of darkness. !Xabbu is a Bushman, come to the city to learn skills which may save the spirit of his tribe. When people around her begin to die, she realizes she has stumbled onto something she is not meant to know, a terrifying secret from which there is no turning back. But when her young brother is struck down by a bizarre and mysterious illness, Renie swears to save him. Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher and the backbone of her family, proud of her African heritage, has fought all her life simply to get by. But every age has its heroes, and unusual times call for unusual champions: Fewer still are willing or able to take up the challenge of this perilous and seductive realm. Only a few have become aware of the danger. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource -its children. Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Description First book in New York Times-bestselling author Tad Williams's cyberpunk fantasy series - "Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists." ―Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods