![]() ![]() Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. ![]() Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. But a blood-chilling conspiracy involving the world’s most powerful individuals now threatens to shatter this world to its very core…. Now in trade paperback, the first book in the classic cyberpunk fantasy series 'Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists.' Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods Otherland. His genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions worldwide. Otherland: City of Golden Shadow is a complex suspense novel of the near future, where virtual reality has expanded to encompass all aspects of society - and national, physical, and mental boundaries are limited only by the virtue or darkness of the imagination, offering an entirely new level of freedom to people in all walks of life. Tad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. The story takes place 100 years from now and follows “a group of unexpected heroes who must escape an assassin and make their way through epic digital worlds to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to destroy humanity.”īy way of comaprison, Amazon offers this book description for City of Golden Shadow: The studio has tapped John Scott III (who is also adapting Isaac Asivmov’s Caves of Steel for Fox) to write the script, with Dan Lin ( Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows) producing. The answers will only be found in Otherland.Variety reports that Warner Brothers has acquired feature rights to Tad Williams’ science fiction book tetralogy, Otherland, comprised of City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, Mountain of Black Glass and Sea of Silver Light, which were originally publsihed between 19. 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. Your world is about to change - Otherland - Shrouded in secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest. 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. Otherland: City of Golden Shadow - by Tad Williams (Paperback) 18. 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. The first in a four-audiobook series, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow is a complex suspense novel of. 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. As he flees from the bloody battlefields of World War I to a castle in the sky, and onward to lands. It’s a post-cyberpunk at the base, with the most intricate VR I have ever encountered in a book. I think City of Golden Shadow is the most complex story I have read so far. He’s a born storyteller, too bad he’s underrated. Only a few have become aware of the danger. Paul Jonas is lost, seemlingly adrift in space and time. Tad Williams is one of the few who can write fantasy and science fiction with the same amazing skills. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource -its children. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. Lee 'Otherland: City of Golden Shadow' por Tad Williams disponible en Rakuten Kobo.
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