Otherland. Surrounded by secrecy, this virtual reality 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. Only a few have become aware of the danger. Fewer still are willing or able to take up the challenge of this perilous and seductive realm. But every age has its heroes, and unusual times call for unusual champions: Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher and the backbone of her family, proud of her African heritage. !Xabbu, a Bushman, come to the city to learn skills which may save the spirit of his tribe. Paul Jonas, a lost man, adrift in space and time. Fourteen-year-old Orlando--the invincible barbarian Thargorm, but only in his imagination. And the greatest mystery of all: Mister Sellars, a strange old man on a military base, a prisoner of both the government and his own body. Does he oppose them? Or does he have ambitions of his own, a spider at the center of a vast web? The answers will only be found in Otherland.

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Tad Williams
Amerikansk forfatter og en af de bedste nulevende forfattere I genren. Hans første bog var "Tailchaser's Song", fra 1985, som havde katte som hovedpersoner. Men tre år senere udkom "The Dragonbone Chair", og det ver denne bog som var med til at give Williams hans store gennembrud. Det var første del I hans fantasy trilogi "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn", en kæmpesaga med dusinvis af spændende personer og racer. I 1996 startede Williams sin næste store saga, denne gang SF. Det var "Otherland" som bliver på fire bøger når den er færdig.