Otherland....Greatest Sci-Fi Series of All Time!

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	• Mountain of Black Glass (Otherland, Volume 3) Tad Williams DAW, 2000 - 784 pages average customer review:based on 92 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

chizz

I actually liked this one better than the first two because of the increased rate of plot development. Everything start happening really fast toward the end and all the side plots are starting to come together. Some of the questions left by the first two books are finally answered in this one (although this one also presents some new puzzles). And of course Williams intorduces a couple of really intriguing new VR nodes (the endless house and the land of Troy).

There is a heavy sense of desperation for the characters in this third book that wasn't there in the first two. You can really see the increase in the action and a sense of urgency as each of the side plots are approaching their climaxes. The next book promises to be exciting and to be full of unanswered questions.

I highly reccommend this entire series.

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Mesmirizing

Wonderful series. I felt like I have just emerged from a VR tank after having read the entire series this past week. It was that good. I could not put it down. It was made even more intriging by the use of Bushman folklore and wisdom. Action packed and full of interesting ideas about our civilization and where it's headed with the vampire data trap. I thoroughly enjoyed the complex characters that lived in this mesmirizing story questioning the meaning of reality.

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Not Free SF Reader

Mythological allegories abound. The Grail Brotherhood, the immortality
seeking wealthy bunch of near-dead in the real word are set up as
Egyptian gods in one virtual realm, and squabble. The adventurers,
quite literally of the heroic fantasy warrior type, for a couple of
them, must survive this, and other weird worlds to get to a
confrontation in a virtual representation of ancient Troy.

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Very Good Follow up. Few true flaws.

Mountain of Black Glass (Otherland, Volume 3) is a true follow up of its predecessors, but it has some flaws that take it down a notch from what it could have been.

It is the same vivid and powerful descriptions and imagination that made the other books so good, and the suspense and foreshadowing. But the books should have ended by here. He may have made it 4 books so he could flesh out the emotional endings or the characters experiences, but it could have definitely ended in a trilogy, and probably should have. Even I got impatient after 3 books of excellent description. The story slows down a lot in this book and there is much less forward movement. I have no complaints about the characters. This was still VERY enjoyable and I would say it is worth reading.

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Otherland....Greatest Sci-Fi Series of All Time!

I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed reading the Otherland series. In my opinion, it is the greatest epic novel ever written, even better than Lord of the Rings. I particularly liked that it was a book that was relevant to our times; I think a lot of what Tad Williams wrote may come true in the not to distant future. I simply could not put it down. Although some have complained here that he bounced around too much from story line to story line or that he could have wrapped it up in just one or two novels, I think those readers are just lazy or are part of the "I want it now" generation. I really could have cared less if he ever ended the series; I enjoyed it that much.

I have been a fan of Stephen King, Tolkien, and Asimov, and have read almost all the books they wrote. However, Tolkien and Asimov are dead and King seems to have got tired of writing the kinds of books we all loved. Anyway, I was looking for someone to fill the void and ran across the Otherland series. Thanks to Tad Williams for filling the void!

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New York Times bestselling author Tad Williams presents...

The hardcover edition of Volume Three...

First time in print!

"A powerful, near-future cyberthriller."--Booklist

"Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is writing fantasy....Fascinating." --Publishers Weekly

"An exciting addition to the growing virtual reality literature."--Library Journal

* A bestselling author--New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, London Times, Publishers Weekly

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