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Book SynopsisSecond 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. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century. But this most exclusive of places is also one of the world's best kept secrets, created and controlled by an organization made up of the world's most powerful and ruthless individuals, a private cartel known—to those who know of their existence at all—as The Grail Brotherhood.
Though their purpose in creating Otherland is still a mystery, it may not remain so for long. For they have exacted a terrible price from humanity in the process, and even their highly organized global conspiracy cannot hide the nature of their
Trade ReviewPraise for the Otherland series:
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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. 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. 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. 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.
Otherland is
one of the best works of science fiction I’ve ever read.” ―Kathrine Kerr, author of the Dragon Mage series
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Williams is an exciting and endlessly inventive writer whose character development is particularly strong, and his fans should roundly enjoy this volume while looking forward to the remaining installments.” ―
Publishers Weekly “
Excellent, imaginative writing definitely make this a must for the audience of fantasy and cyber-fiction readers.” ―
VOYA “A powerful story.... Williams depicts the band’s adventures vividly, sometimes giving them a satirical edge, sometimes a didactic one, and sometimes both....
The work of a powerful imagination.” ―
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