The villains are suitably villainous, the kind you love to hate while the protagonists are diverse, deep and fantastically rendered. What really shines, as in all the Tad Williams books I've read, is the characters. The protagonists must then delve into that virtual world in order to thwart the bad guys (as yet undefined) plans and save the people they love.
This idea that VR is ubiquitous forms the main conceit of the book with the rich villains setting up a ridiculously complex virtual playground for themselves and trampling everyone in the process.
#Tad williams otherland volume 1 series#
I did eventually get to the end of this but I can legitimately say that it is one of the very worst novels I have ever actually read in its entirety and I certainly won't be reading the remainder of this series - the very thought of another 3000 pages of this tripe makes me gag.Ĭity of Golden Shadow is a sci-fi epic set in some undefined future where the Internet has gone all VR a bit like Ready Player One but written years before. A novel about VR and conspiracies provides rich material for dramatic storytelling but here this promising concept has been squandered utterly.ĭo everything you can to avoid reading this and make sure you warn others who might be tempted by the tantalising cover blurb. What makes this whole desperate endeavour even more disappointing is that there is actually the germ of a good idea buried (very deeply) somewhere in this mess.
In its place are endless, wordy, barely literate paragraphs of what ultimately, when all is said and done, amounts to textual diarrhoea. Completely absent is any concept of story, plot, pacing, characterisation or anything else that would vaguely resemble an actual novel. Tad Williams is a man who clearly loves the sound of his own voice but evidently is so boring that he can only get himself heard by writing devastatingly tedious tomes such as this one. Badly written, dull and horrifically long to an extent that is actually beyond belief (in the sense that I'm forced to ask: how did this utter rubbish ever get published?). "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.This is truly, mind-numbingly appalling. Settle in for a long, enjoyable ride, because this 770-page monster is just the first of four projected novels. The clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but everyone who tries to find out what's going on ends up dead. Some of the younger kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, but they can't get back out. A novel of dazzling ideas, non-stop adventure and irresistible characters, Otherland, the first part of an epic new series by a master storyteller, is destined to become a landmark in imaginative fiction.īest-selling fantasy author Tad Williams ( Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series) begins a far-reaching cyberpunk saga with Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizing something is wrong on the network. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming Earth's most valuable resource - its children. The best mind of two generations have laboured to build it. Vast amounts of money have been lavished on it. Shrouded in secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares.
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