Otherland

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Leto

Who ?

I've posted a reply about Duncton in a previuos post on page 2 of this thread Leto...

[Rane Longfox]

The first full series I ever read *sniff*

[Leto]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

I've posted a reply about Duncton in a previuos post on page 2 of this thread Leto...

No reprise for a lazy girl ?

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Leto

No reprise for a lazy girl ?

Only if you promise to wear your booties...

[Leto]

It's autumn, I almost always wear them.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Leto

It's autumn, I almost always wear them.

WOHOO! *Mental image forms*..

I find it hard to believe that only Otherland is in French Leto. I would've thought the earlier Memory, Sorrow and Thorn may have been translated or the current Shadowmarch trilogy. I know some of these have been translated into German and other European languages...

Here have this to brighten your day *Hands Leto steaming cup of coffee and Croissant*

[Leto]

AFAIK only Otherland. But I'm not really looking at the fantasy part of the bookshops.
And Otherland has been divided in 6 books instead of 4.
Thanks for the coffee.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Leto

AFAIK only Otherland. But I'm not really looking at the fantasy part of the bookshops.

Yeh well in that case could well have some of the others translated then.

If you liked the coffee, check out the spread I've got going in the Lounge...

[Leto]

Just checked on Amazon.Fr there's a serie called "L'arcane des épées" in 7 volumes, which one is it exactly I don't know. And of course Autremonde (Otherland).

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Leto

Just checked on Amazon.Fr there's a serie called "L'arcane des épées" in 7 volumes, which one is it exactly I don't know. And of course Autremonde (Otherland).

That's his original Memory, Sorrow and Thorn classic trilogy split into 7 volumes in French.

Thanks for checking up...

Now go partake of the rich abundance awaiting you at the Lounge...

[scarface]

The Otherland series is my personal alltime favorite!I loved so many of the concepts~the game/vr world being nearly indistinguishable from reality,the close friendships,the diabolical Felix Jongler(probably spelled wrong but I forgive myself!)I enjoyed the fact that he's the oldest,yet most powerful man in the world.Everytime I watch the Simpsons I think of him & how Mr. Burns is like a younger version of him.The children's minds supplying the energy for this undertaking was interesting also.One mighty fine series if you ask me!I'd like to find more books like these.I read Neuromancer around that time also(William Gibson)& liked it too but had to read the rest of the Otherland series immediately upon completion whereas I never read any more of Gibson's work after that I recall anyways.This is such an intersting forum & I'm so glad to have found it!Happy New Year Everyone!!!

[cky]

im reading river of blue fire, and its great. City of golden shadows was excellent. Though, it was weird reading sci-fi because i always have read fantasy or fiction, and this was transitino.

[cky]

oh, this is my first time here!

[Seanie]

Tad Williams can write beautifully!!! MS&T is definately up there with my faves, but i had trouble getting into otherland, i think it comes down to it being more sci fi than what i'm used to reading... I did finish the series, but i dont remember much of it except that it left me feeling a bit confused instead of satisfied like i usually do after i read a good fantasy.

[Crisspin]

I am a big fan of TW. One of the things I really enjoy about his work is that it actually does span different genre's.

Since he writes different kinds of stories, with separate tones and styles as well as across genre's, not everyone will like everything he does. Otherland is very different from WarOfFlowers which itself is far from MS&T.

I personally enjoyed the Otherland books tremendously. I was a big cyberpunk fan in the early days, but felt it quickly became stale. So much of it was locked into a specific tech-noir style and everything felt the same. With Tad's Otherland I feel he quickly demistifies the technology and lets you live in the varied worlds he creates. He created this near future, cyber-vr world that is vibrant and colorful and creative in ways all the dark, dirty noir cities of day's past never could be.

Plus on just an overall thought, Tad's entire on-line Shadowmarch experiment was refreshingly ambitious. He really tried to do something new and hopefully those books will benefit from it.

Not every experiment will succeed, but I always thought Tad as pretty cool simply because he tries to do new things ... some are better than others, but at least he is always trying to improve and branch out.