TAD WILLIAMS OTHERLAND VOLUME 1 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. A dazzling book.' ―Melanie Rawn, author of Dragon Prince '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.

Tolkien'.' ―Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods '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. Praise for the Otherland series: ' 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. 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? The answers will only be found in Otherland. And 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. However, youth and frailty are not enough to get you excused from saving the world. Fourteen-year-old Orlando is also the invincible barbarian Thargorm, but only in his imagination. 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. 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. But every age has its heroes, and unusual times call for unusual champions: Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher and the backbone of her family, proud of her African heritage, has fought all her life simply to get by.

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. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it.

Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares.

TAD WILLIAMS OTHERLAND VOLUME 1 SERIES

About the Book The first volume in this mesmerizing story takes readers to the near-future, when a global conspiracy threatens to sacrifice the Earth for the promise of a far more exclusive place-Otherland, a universe where any fantasy can be made real.īook Synopsis 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 Otherland.

Tad williams otherland volume 1