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Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead.
An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy.
"All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things."
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The third volume of the massive Otherland saga focuses (insofar as a book this size can be said to focus at all) on the young, ailing Orlando Gardiner and the World War I soldier Paul Jonas. Jonas has another encounter with the winged woman named Vaala, in which she summons him to seek the legendary mountain of black glass, which is said to reach to the stars and hold all the answers he seeks. At the same time Gardiner, enmeshed in the virtual Egypt of Felix Jongleur, wealthy leader of the Grail Brotherhood that created the colossal virtual simulation known as Otherland, is summoned to adopt the persona of a warrior in the Trojan War. He will find his answers "before Priam's Walls," or so he is told. In addition to these two personal quests, readers will learn a good deal more about the Circle, the Brotherhood's opponents, and their increasingly deadly duel in the real world, as well as encounter many of the surviving characters they have come to know from the previous volumes. The sheer breadth of Williams' knowledge and the richness of his imagination make this book, like its predecessors, a complex and slow-paced feast. Otherland still remains the state of the art in integrating virtual reality and folklore into a single comprehensive narrative, and with a fourth volume in the works, one hopes that the mysteries will be resolved and that a number of the characters one has come to either love or loathe will receive their just deserts. Roland Green
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Good writing doesn't necessarily make a good book. The story itself is excellent, but you keep asking yourself "wasn't there a point?". Every now and then the point - or better points - keep coming up, but Williams is good at keeping the ultimate secrets just out of reach, which becomes tiring after three massive books. His very well developed characters gain too much depth, especially those acting on the periphery of the story only, which tends to get boring after a while.
And thus, we are sent from one virtuality to the next, trudging on and on. Merely the promise of conclusion in the fourth episode keeps me reading. Commercially effective, but before I start another of Williams' series, I'll wait out the publishing of the last part.
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The first Otherland book stunned me. It fufilled completely the very high expectations I had for Tad Williams after reading his earlier fantasy novels. The complex plot, the interesting characters, the awe-inspiring worlds and cleverly drawn future. The characters were above all involving and put into locations that felt perfect. However, except for the pretty interesting ending of this third book, this series has been steadily dropping in quality. I feel like the characters that i grew to know have been sabotaged, that they are now robots following in a series of pointless tasks. At every step of the way, the characters' words seem directed at you the reader not at the other characters. In short, Books 2 and 3 really have been mostly filler. I can see an great story being made from the outline of these events but the execution has become so poor that they are a chore to read. I think I'll go back to reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, or even, dare i say it, Piers Anthony's Killobyte now that i have finished this third otherland book! Tad Williams better pull a stunning 4th book or I will rack this series up as a brilliant idea that he couldn't follow up on. This series SHOULD have put Tad Williams up next to David Foster Wallace, Robert Jordan, and Neal Stephenson as my favorite current authors. Sadly, only the first book deserves a reread.
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In feinster Williams-Manier geht es in die dritte Runde Otherland. In diesem Buch werden keine neuen Charaktere eingeführt, dafür die "alten" teilweise in neuem Licht gezeigt. zB erzählt für kurze Zeit zum ersten Mal Fredericks.
Darüber hinaus kann man sich freuen, da in diesem Buch endlich mal einige Dinge aufgedeckt werden und unsere Charaktere zumindest etwas mehr über die Gralbruderschaft erfahren. Verraten kann ich hier natürlich nichts ;)
Das Ende dieses Bandes ist wohl das aufregendste bis jetzt. Nicht nur passieren 1000 Sachen auf einmal, einige Charaktere durchlaufen eine gewaltige Veränderung, von welcher Art diese ist, sage ich hier nicht. Mit Tad Williams' Büchern ist es halt so, dass man am besten gar nix von der Handlung sagt, damit der Leser alles für sich selbst erleben kann.
Und der Erfolg des Autors spricht ja wohl für sich selbst. Denn 4000 Seiten für eine Geschichte ist schon gewaltig viel und trotzdem wird Otherland von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt verehrt und geliebt. Und der Autor gleich mit!
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In feinster Williams-Manier geht es in die dritte Runde Otherland. In diesem Buch werden keine neuen Charaktere eingeführt, dafür die "alten" teilweise in neuem Licht... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Januar 2005 von Wendy
Viele Ideen, eine Bereicherung um mehr Erfahrungen
Band 1 und 2 waren okay, lang, man lernt die Umwelt kennen, lernt die Charaktere und liebt oder hasst den einen oder anderen. Im 3. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Januar 2004 veröffentlicht
tad williams eben
Dieser Author hat eine große Schwäche: er schreibt zu lange unwichtiges Zeug in die sonst sehr schönen Erzählstränge. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Mai 2003 veröffentlicht
long but satisfying
Tad Williams sure does write a lot of words. The sure number of characters, plotlines, and situations makes this book more like a soap opera script. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. November 2001 veröffentlicht
I LOVE Tad Williams
I bought the first of his Otherland series I believe two years ago.. and went through them as fast as you'd go through picture books. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Juli 2000 von "ontai"
Immense
Very involved, the seemingly repetitous "worlds within the net" are slowly coming together to form a bigger picture.
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juni 2000 von Howard D. Matthews
Too Dense Tad
Reading this series requires intellectual stamina due to the complex plot and disorientation associated with the intertwining of reality and virtual reality. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juni 2000 von Tom Rice
Otherland keeps Rolling
The promises Williams laid out in the earlier volumes begin to cumulate in the third and second to last installment of the mammoth Otherland 'novel. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Mai 2000 von Robert H. Bedford
Enough Already
The series is good so far, but not great. The third book seems to be a rehash of the second, just in different settings. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Mai 2000 von Jay
Good but Looonnngggg....
Let me start by saying that Tad Williams can flat out write. His descriptions are amazing. I feel like I know these characters inside and out. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. April 2000 von Vincent S. Henry
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