![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. This edition is currently not available.Shrouded in secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. ![]() 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. 1: City Of Golden Shadow (9780886777104) by Williams, Tad and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 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. 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. ![]()
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