![]() I also really liked seeing the Gods getting involved in the story more and the people outside the system like Long Joseph and the parents of Orlando and Fredricks. I loved seeing Fredricks as he came to terms with understanding his own feelings and also decided to act for himself and take the lead when Orlando wasn't able to. Seeing Orlando and Fredricks' relationship develop in this book was beautiful and I think that their friendship was taken to a whole new level. We get to see how a blind woman experiences the world of Otherland through static and information rather than sight, and we also see how this 'ability' to sense the network helps her and the others out of tight spots. Martine's diary entries, each one ended with Code Delphi, are an excellent look into her character. Although each of these three I liked in the previous two books, this book was the one where they all became excellent characters for me and seeing the way they each dealt with the Simulations they ended up in and the problems they were faced with was great. This book particularly made me enjoy the characters of Orlando, Fredricks and Martine. I do think some of it could possibly have been cut to make it more exciting, but otherwise this is just more of the same super world from Williams. ![]() I did feel that although I really love the different worlds within Otherland and seeing our team exploring them, this one actually didn't give us that many answers in terms of the overall plot direction until right at the end. Well this book was really, really good again! I think we can solidly say that Tad Williams is now a very firm favourite author of mine. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: Want some amazing, unique, not stereotypical characters of different ethnicities added to the mix, making it even more complex, adding mythologies and mentalities to the already overboiling mix of ideas? This breaking of genre borders, in combination with unconventional protagonists, and the sheer length are the reasons why this series doesn´t get the fame and success it would deserve, why Williams isn´t named in a row with Sanderson, Erikson, Martin, Rothfuss, and others. If one treats and uses books as bad as I do. It´s as if one would change tone, genre, and even the author a bit, when the wonderful fantasy chapters are over and the desperate terror of a very possible future sets in again.īy the way, did anyone notice that, not just because utopias would be boring to tell, close to every sci-fi author draws a terrifying, horrible picture of the future and that many of these futures are already reality or will not take more than years to become real? I know I am redundant and already mentioned it before, but just how this might play out very differently in technologically extremely high developed Japanese and South Korean cultures, in different socioeconomic layers of society in the democratic West and especially in dictatorships and very poor countries, is both terrifying and fascinating.īack to the show, the reader gets deeper and deeper into the degenerated rabbit hole, the plot accelerates, the unbelievable and ingenious conclusion of the fourth and final part of the series is prepared, and the sense of wonder overkill astonishes the reader with new revelations around each next dog ear corner. The epic range of Williams´ fantasy and imagination, whose high fantasy series Memory Sorrow and Thorn is an amazing journey, is mixed with the more dystopic cyberpunk wasted future elements of soon to be real sci-fi, making it an extraordinary science fantasy read. I wonder why Williams didn´t consider doing this, adding an extra sci-fi world animation layer next to the mainly fantastic, historic, and horror ones, because this would have given the work even more suspense. The options, by switching between a corpocracy controlled, neoliberal nightmare world, and the fantastic VR, open so many plot possibilities that couldn´t be enabled with other worldbuilding combinations, it could even add sci-fi to the mix. This business model with certainly be a hard nut to crack for the public relation, corporate responsibility, and code of conduct departments, but maybe they could let it more seem like a great opportunity for everyone from kids to grandparents to have loads of immersive, forever fun. Up the corridor you have a room full of friends.What if the Matrix isn´t run by evil machines, but by the corpocracy? A fan subreddit for the stories and fantasy worlds imagined and written by Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn & Last King of Osten Ard trilogies, Otherland, Shadowmarch, Bobby Dollar, War of the Flowers, Tailchaser's Song etc.
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