City of Golden Shadow 9780886777630

"Zie foto's. Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource-its children. "ON AN EPIC SCALE AND MOST IMPRESSIVE OF ALL IS OTHERLAND, a big colorful novel full of real-world conspiracy and virtual reality wonders, with characters worth caring about."-Locus "The ultimate virtual-reality saga, borrowing motifs from cyberpunk, mythology and world history." - San Francisco Chronicle "Irresistible characters, challenging ideas, an intricate and startlingly possible plot-everything any reader of SF or fantasy could ask for in a novel, with gorgeous writing besides. A dazzling book."-Melanie Rawn "Tad Williams proves himself as adept at writing science fiction as he is at writing fantasy. Best of all, however, are Williams's well-drawn sympathetic characters...." - Publishers Weekly "A wonderful mixture of visual imagery and movement... once again Tad Williams paints us a picture so vivid and real that it becomes three-dimensional. Highly recommended...."-Absolute Magnitude "OTHERLAND is one of the best works of science fiction I've ever read." - Katharine Kerr "