Otherland by Tad Williams

Otherland is a tetralogy written by Tad Williams, set on a future earth sometime in the 22nd Century. Describing many advancements in technology - including fully immersion simulations the series offers interpretations of many classic literary works from the Iliad through War of the Worlds to the Wizard of Oz.

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River of Blue Fire

by Tad Williams

River of Blue Fire is the second volume in Tad Williams Otherland series.

I'm unsure as to why I brought this the second volume in Tad Williams Otherland series (which has just been concluded in a forth volume). I wasn't that impressed with the first volume, which i found to long and lacking in any new ideas. Williams is consistent and continues volume 2 with 800 pages of exactly the same thing. The characters travel from virtual world to virtual world, and while they do have a...

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reviewed on Sunday 01 July 2001

City of Golden Shadow

by Tad Williams

City of Golden Shadow is the first volume in Tad Williams Otherland series.

Eight hundred pages in a rather small font and only the first in a series. This somewhat ups the stakes when one has to decide whether to recommend a book or not. It's so easy when a series is so clearly good (like Nights Dawn by Hamilton) or when it's clearly bad (and I luckily can't think of any real stinkers off the top of my head).

With Otherland it's a bit harder. While I can't put m...

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reviewed on Friday 01 October 1999