Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass

Informationen zum Autor Tad Williams has held more jobs than any sane person should admit to—singing in a band, selling shoes, managing a financial institution, throwing newspapers, and designing military manuals, to name just a few. He also hosted a syndicated radio show for ten years, worked in theater and television production, taught both grade-school and college classes, and worked in multimedia for a major computer firm. He is cofounder of an interactive television company, and is currently writing comic books and film and television scripts as well. Tad and his family live in London and the San Francisco Bay Area. You can find Tad Williams at tadwilliams.com. Klappentext The third book in New York Times-bestselling author Tad Williams's cyberpunk fantasy series • "Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists." ?Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods "The Grail Brotherhood has built the most powerful, sophisticated simulation network imaginable. At the same time, they have manipulated and injured the minds of thousands of children." This proclamation from the mysterious Mr. Sellars confirmed what Renie Sulaweyo had feared to be true when she first broke into the Otherland network in a desperate search for the cause of her brother Stephen's deathlike coma. Now Renie, the Bushman !Xabbu, and their companions find themselves navigating a treacherous and ever-changing course?from a strangely unfinished land, to a seemingly endless labyrinthine House?pursuing a sociopathic killer who has stolen one of their group. To Renie's despair she is no closer to uncovering the secrets which could help save Stephen's life, and now it appears that something may be very wrong with the Otherland network itself. As Paul Jonas, Orlando, Renie and the rest strive to reach Priam's Walls, in the heart of Troy, they know that their quest is running perilously short of time. For the Grail Brotherhood has finally set the date for the Ceremony when they will make their bid for the immortality, and thereby seal the fate of Earth's children forever. But before Renie and her allies can hope to stop the Brotherhood, they must first solve the mysteries of Otherland itself, and confront its darkest secret?an entity known only as the Other. Leseprobe CHAPTER 1   A Circle of Strangers   NETFEED/NEWS: Net Gadfly Claims "Digital Divide" Still a Problem (visual: African school children watching wallscreen)   VO: Ansel Kleemer, who styles himself "an old-fashioned gadfly" who has devoted his life to being an irritant to economic and political power-players, is launching another protest to bring UN Telecomm's attention to the "digital divide" that Kleemer says is becoming a permanent gulf in world society. (visual: Kleemer in office)   KLEEMER: "It's simple, really-the net simply replicates world economic inequality, the haves versus the have-nots. There was a time when people thought information technology would bring advantages to everyone, but it's clear that unless things change, the net will continue to be like everything else-if you can afford it, you'll get it. If you can't, who cares about you?"   It was only a hand, fingers curled, protruding from the earth like a swollen pink-and-brown flower, but she knew it was her brother's hand.   As she bent and grasped it, she felt it move slowly, sleepily beneath her fingers, and was thrilled to know he lived. She pulled.   Stephen emerged from the clinging soil bit by bit-hand and wrist first, then the rest of his arm, like the root of a stubborn plant. At last his shoulder and head burst free in a shower of dirt. His eyes were closed, his lips curled in a tight, secretive smile. In a desperate hurry now to wrest him loose completely, she pulled harder, drawing out his torso and legs as well, but somehow his other arm, hidde...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Tad Williams
• Edition: Daw
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780756417451
• ISBN: 978-0-7564-1745-1
• Pages: 656
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 34 mm
• Thème: Otherland
• Catégorie: Littérature > Science-fiction , fantastique