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Williams, Tad City of Golden Shadow
DAW January 1, 1998 0-88677-763-1 / 9780886777630 Paperback Very Good
Best-selling fantasy author Tad Williams (Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, S orrow and Thorn series) begins a far-reaching cyberpunk saga with Renie Su laweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizing something is w rong on the network. Some of the younger kids, including her brother Steph en, have logged into the net, but they can't get back out. The clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but everyone who tries to f ind out what's going on ends up dead. Settle in for a long, enjoyable ride , because this 770-page monster is just the first of four projected novels .
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Williams, Tad Mountain of Black Glass
DAW September 12, 2 0-88677-906-5 / 9780886779061 Paperback Very Good
Trapped in the exotic virtual simulation known as Otherland, Paul Jonas, Or lando Gardner, and Renie Sulaweyo continue their separate explorations into the heart of the reality that surrounds them. As they confront puzzles and obstacles in re-creations of ancient Egypt and Homeric Greece, they come c loser to the black glass mountain that may offer them the key to the myster ious Grail Brotherhood that controls the passages to and from Otherland. Sy nopses of the previous volumes (City of Golden Shadow; River of Blue Fire) of Williams's ambitious epic provide enough information for newcomers to th e series, but the entire story is best read in sequence. Filled with comple x plot threads, a wide variety of virtual and "real" characters and vivid d escriptions of numerous worlds, this series belongs in most sf collections.
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500.00 JPY
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Williams, Tad River of Blue Fire
DAW September 1, 19 0-88677-844-1 / 9780886778446 Paperback Very Good
In his first work of SF, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow (1997), bestselli ng fantasist Williams (To Green Angel Tower) introduced one of the most imp ressive virtual-reality landscapes ever created. Otherland, a gigantic real m consisting of untold numbers of virtual universes, is the creation of the mysterious and evil Grail Brotherhood, a cabal of billionaire capitalists, ruthless gangsters and corrupt government officials. Bent on discovering t he secret of eternal life, they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal, even the deaths of hundreds of children whose minds have been trapped on t he Net. City of Golden Shadow told the story of a small band of virtual exp lorers who dared to enter Otherland without permission, some for adventure, others to save the children ensnared on the Net. In this second volume of a projected four-book series, the quest continues. As often happens with mi ddle entries in a series, there are a few problems. Despite a six-page summ ary, readers unfamiliar with City of Golden Shadow may have trouble figurin g out the complex backstory. Further, with little to tie the various plot t hreads together at either end, the book lacks an obvious structure. Still, Williams is an exciting and endlessly inventive writer whose character deve lopment is particularly strong, and his fans should roundly enjoy this volu me while looking forward to the remaining installments.
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Williams, Tad Sea of Silver Light
Daw Books April 2, 2002 0-7564-0030-9 / 9780756400309 Paperback Very Good
This stunning finale to the gigantic Otherland tetralogy (City of Golden Sh adow, etc.), a brilliant fusion of quest fantasy and technological SF, is s ure to please Williams's many fans. Otherland, a complete universe co-exist ent with the real world, incorporates elements of the Arabian Nights, the A lice and Oz books, the Neanderthal Age, the Trojan War, rewritten Roman his tory (Hannibal returns three centuries after his death to crush Rome, witho ut elephants), as well as numerous nursery rhymes and fables. An enormous c ast of courageous humans confronts monstrous insects, unimaginable dangers and all the appurtenances of fantastic adventure. At nearly 700 pages this is a mighty mouthful to swallow, but a well-crafted if convoluted plot sust ains interest through the lengthy climax, which explains the inexplicable. Those scenes grounded in a recognizable world are the most compelling. Indi viduals may live in both worlds, despite Otherland being only made of "ligh t and numbers." Characters dead in real life can still be alive in the virt ual world, as in the poignant plight of a young woman, whose dress and mann ers are 18th century, who's in love with a young man snatched, apparently, from the trenches of WWI. Are they real or "sims" (simulations)? Generously , the author supplies two master villains: one for whom we may begrudge som e respect; for the other, no mercy. The Otherland books are a major accompl ishment.
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Williams, Tad Shadowmarch (Daw Book Collectors)
DAW Hardcover November 2, 200 0-7564-0219-0 / 9780756402198 Hardcover Fine/Fine
A tight clean first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscrip tions, not price clipped or an ex-lib; Williams opens another of the intricate, intriguing sagas that are his stock-in-trade. In a once turbulently conflicted land of humans, elves, and dwarves, an old truce is starting to unravel. The frontier called the Shadowline, between the Twilight Lands and those of humans, is being breached. The first Marchlands kingdom in the path of Twilight invaders is in disarray, for its king is a prisoner, and not all accept his elder son's regency. What's more, the cruel empire of the south is moving north. So the Marchlands are caught between two foes while having to deal with internal intrigues and inexperienced rulers. When the prince regent is killed, apparently by one of his closest advisors, the surviving regents are an impetuous princess and a disabled prince. Trust at court and in the kingdom dwindles even as Twilight forces attack, and responsibilities the princess never dreamed of or prepared for fall upon her. A page-turner, if you can keep the who, where, and when straight (the appended lists of people and places help).
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Williams, Tad Tailchaser's Song
DAW December 12, 20 0-88677-953-7 / 9780886779535 Paperback Very Good+
Fritti Tailchaser a young ginger tom not yet a full grown hunter, is the ma in catamong a host of appropriately named feline peersin this extravagantly detailed fantasy. When his best friend, Hushpad, vanishes, Fritti embarks on a quest to find her, and so enters the list of jousters against the evil s of the world. His many trials and adventures bring him into contact with a veritable galaxy of cats, who speak a language for which a glossary is pr ovided. This feline epic culminates in a decisive battle with an evil cat g od. Creating as fully realized a habitat as that of Watership Down and othe r imaginative animal communities, California radio personality Williams's f irst novel should engage the fancy of cat lovers.
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Williams, Tad The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn)
DAW Trade March 1, 2005 0-7564-0269-7 / 9780756402693 Paperback Near Fine
As war threatens to rip apart a once peaceful land, a young kitchen boy tur ned magician's apprentice embarks on a journey that could save his world fr om the dark machinations of a king gone mad. The author of Tailchaser's Son g draws on many mythologies for the background of his fantasy epic, creatin g a solid story spiced with political intrigue and strong, appealing heroes .
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Williams, Tad The War of the Flowers
Daw Books May 1, 2003 0-7564-0135-6 / 9780756401351 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good/Very Good
Travel into another dimension is a popular fantasy ploy, but rarely accompl ished with such humor, terror and even logic as in this stand-alone by best seller Williams (Tailchaser's Song, etc.). After losing his girlfriend, The o Vilmos, a singer in a humdrum northern California rock band, finds in his late mother's remote cabin an amazing if incomplete manuscript left by his eccentric great-uncle, Eamonn Dowd, about a fairy world purportedly visite d by its author. Unsurprisingly, Faerie turns out to be a real place. Apple core, a short-tempered, red-haired sprite, abruptly appears before Theo jus t as a horrifying monster starts banging on the door. At Applecore's comman d, Theo swoops her up and pops through "the Gate" into a magical realm that proves initially beguiling, later strange and finally deadly. Ironically, Faerie is a distorted image of our own world, ruled by cruel fairy tyrants. The powerful classes, each named for a flower, wage war against each other , using colossal dragons as the equivalents of nuclear bombs.
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