Conspiracy theories, life of the Bushmen, Mayan mythology, corporate interests and individual stories all glued together.
What bothered me most was that at times, seemed a lot more action-paced than Willams when it comes to storytelling, or, put bluntly: some passages are inanely meticuluos to read and utterly boring.Īnd it's only one fourth of the whole enchilada.ĭon't get me wrong, Willams creates a rather interesting universe, but it suffers from inept oversaturation. The book can be regarded as science fiction, although (with a rather apt analogy to the children playing MMORPG - which might be unintended, though) everything man creates for himself is fantastical, and less SF. Williams describes a rather epic tale of this VR, called Otherland, which far exceeds any kind of VR that the background supplies. The book begins with an anachronistic historical setting of Paul in WW1, but as the book progresses and introduces virtual reality like any decent novel, it soon becomes apparant that Paul seems trapped in a VR simulation.
Show More Orlando, a seriously ill teenager and his friend from the contemporary kind of MMORPG, as well as Paul, a rather lost man without much of a memory inventory, are all lead along a series of strange and intimidating events to approach a shared fate. A strong female lead character was just icing on this yummy sci-fi cake. Williams weaves the sci-fi elements of networked computing and virtual reality with traditional South African folklore, to beautiful effect. Suffice it to say that this novel gave me everything that I love about Tad Williams - an intricate plot, detailed world building and enough details to choke a horse. (After some cursory checking it seems the company Netflix didn't begin operations until a year later, in 1997, the same year that the acronym MMORPG came into use.) His young characters spend hours battling monsters with their online friends, a nod to the popularity and evolution of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs). "City of Golden Shadow" was completed in 1996, but in it Williams imagines people watching "netflicks" instead of movies. I continue to be surprised by how prophetic Science Fiction can seem. The scope of what needs to be done is more than Renie can really comprehend, but she can't give up while her young brother, Stephen, is somehow entangled in these powerful men's dark machinations. Renie and !Xabbu become entangled in a conspiracy involving the most powerful and dangerous men in the world. Show More !Xabbu, one of the last remaining African Bushmen.
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