Helpful Score: 9
Probably one of my all time favorite series of books. This book is the beginning of an absolutely fantastic series that will captivate you from the beginning and not let go until the very end. I rarely reread a book but I would gladly reread this series.
Helpful Score: 6
Very well-written, as all Tad Williams books are. It takes you to a place where the concept of computer-land is brought to reality. The
characters are fairly well-developed, but the creation of the land inside cyberspace was brilliant.
characters are fairly well-developed, but the creation of the land inside cyberspace was brilliant.
Helpful Score: 5
Interesting series about an a computer based world and its connection to the real world. Suspense filled with very good character development.
Helpful Score: 5
This is one of the best virtual reality/internet-taken-to-the-limit series I've ever read. The storyline is just plain excellent - keeps you on the edge of your seat, and you just can't turn the pages fast enough... the characters are great, and the creativity and newness of the concept is really, really interesting. Read this one.
Helpful Score: 4
Science fiction in the style of William Gibson's Neuromancer. Very futuristic, worlds within worlds, where you can build a new persona and live that life within Otherland.
Helpful Score: 2
Excellent fantasy. Really keeps the reader involved.
Helpful Score: 2
Lenghty but if you like very involved SF this is for you.
Helpful Score: 2
This is the first book of four, and introduces you to a slew of characters in what appear to first glance a varied and disparate set of backgrounds.
As the story unfolds, in the not-to-distant future children start coming down with a mysterious illness, and the help of some avid net users is enlisted to find out how -- and why.
This is an amazing series, one of my favorites.
As the story unfolds, in the not-to-distant future children start coming down with a mysterious illness, and the help of some avid net users is enlisted to find out how -- and why.
This is an amazing series, one of my favorites.
San Francisco Chronicle --The ultimate virtual reality saga, borrowing motifs from cyberpunk,mythology, and world history. Vol. 1 of 4
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The beginning of an incredible journey
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I found this very hard to get into.
Sci-Fi fans... classic!
Very cool.
Cover image is the original US paperback printing (the golden city), not this new image with the skull.
Norma K. (norma6448) -
The cover is different than what is shown. Mine is black background wiwth golden city in the middle
I have not read this book. Hopefully someone would like to add it to there collection of sci-fi books.
