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Otherland #3 Mountain Of Black Glass [Mass Market Paperback]

Tad Williams (Author)
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Publication Date: Sep 28 2000 | Series: Otherland (Book 3)
Mountain of Black Glass is the third volume of Tad Williams' highly acclaimed four-book series, Otherland. A truly unique reading experience combining elements of science fiction, fantasy, and techno-thriller, it is a rich epic tale in which virtual reality could prove the key to a whole new universe of possibilities for the entire human race-or become the exclusive domain of the rich and the ruthless as they seek a technological pathway to immortality....

Praise for Otherland:

"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

"This is the best thing Williams has ever done, and it deserves attention, time, praise. More, it deserves to be read."-The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

"Exciting...intricately plotted international adventure and suspense thriller set in the near future."-Library Journal

"Williams fills his pages with the sort of stories and characters that readers of epic fantasy are sure to love."-Publishers Weekly

"...Williams' knowledge and the richness of his imagination make this book, like its predecessors, a complex and slow-paced feast."-Booklist

"Tad Williams is a master of description. Scenes seem to leap off the page, grab you by the collar...."-<

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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Trapped in the exotic virtual simulation known as Otherland, Paul Jonas, Orlando Gardner, and Renie Sulaweyo continue their separate explorations into the heart of the reality that surrounds them. As they confront puzzles and obstacles in re-creations of ancient Egypt and Homeric Greece, they come closer to the black glass mountain that may offer them the key to the mysterious Grail Brotherhood that controls the passages to and from Otherland. Synopses of the previous volumes (City of Golden Shadow; River of Blue Fire) of Williams's ambitious epic provide enough information for newcomers to the series, but the entire story is best read in sequence. Filled with complex plot threads, a wide variety of virtual and "real" characters and vivid descriptions of numerous worlds, this series belongs in most sf collections.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a wonderfully satisfying read! But be prepared... Jun 19 2002
By Joe
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have read and enjoyed the entire book now... That is to say, all four books of this one immense volume. That is why I say to be prepared! The first three books do not have clean 'everything gets resolved' endings. They are simply somewhat random stopping points for this character rich tale. But as you finish the final volume, Mr. Williams brings everything together masterfully, with a suspence that rivals the most twisting of mystery novels. It is also believable sci-fi, without the need for 'galaxy far-away' civilizations and incomprehensible alien technologies to make it work. Otherland is a testament to the sci-fi genre.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better and better... Oct 4 2003
By Aeronomer
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Each book is better than the last. The more I read, the more I cared about every character. Everytime I thought Williams had exhausted the potential to blow my mind with his 'virtual' universe, he smacks me down again. Couldn't wait to turn the next page. Never a dull moment. So many places, so many great characters, so much plot. Can't believe the amount of enjoyment I got for the price (I bought all the hardcovers). I feel like I ripped Tad off. Sometimes someone writes something so good you're just left feeling grateful and fortunate...
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5.0 out of 5 stars To the Mountain Jan 16 2003
By Jack M. Walter
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the slowest of the series so far, but the last section of the novel is worth getting to, and the ending is far from what I expected. I am more intrigued than ever and long to finish the fourth and final volume so that I can discover the answers to all of the mysteries that the author has created. I especially love the Wicked Tribe and the introductions to each chapter which shed light on what is happening in the future Earth culture in which the story is set. Look for a reference to the essay "A Modest Proposal" in a book full of such references. Otherland continues to hypnotize me.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Slow, Slower, Slowest
I started reading this series a couple of years ago. The first book, and to a lesser extent, the second, held me entranced. Read more
Published on Jan 3 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars VR has never been so suspensfull
This the third book in Mr Williams Otherland series is awesome!!

Unlike the other two books this one moves fast and starts to answer some of the questions that where developed in... Read more

Published on Oct 7 2002 by "whitetiger732"
4.0 out of 5 stars Scanny!
As the third book in a series, Mountain of Black Glass serves its purpose. The plot moves forward much more quickly than the previous two novels, which were excellent! Read more
Published on Aug 17 2002 by avalon
5.0 out of 5 stars My husband really enjoyed this set
My huband read all the books and was very satisfied
Published on Aug 12 2002 by Althea Jones
3.0 out of 5 stars Seemed like well-written filler
The first two absolutely held me in THRALL. I finished them in five days. This one, although well written and still interesting in parts, seems to be drawn out a bit too much. Read more
Published on July 17 2002
1.0 out of 5 stars get to the point already
This series grows tiresome in volume III, and more and more, it seems to be Tad Williams' way of writing about every single setting imaginable. Read more
Published on July 5 2002 by Shannon B Davis
1.0 out of 5 stars Way too long
I have loved Tad William's fantasy trilogy which is one of the best I ever read. So when the Otherland series was completed I bought book 1 as a start. Read more
Published on Jun 20 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars THE SERIES IS HEATING UP
If you have made it this far then I don't have to tell you that the series thus far has been complicated and at times tediuous. Read more
Published on Jun 1 2002 by Shawn Tassone
3.0 out of 5 stars Why do I keep doing this?
Okay, it's a decent series. But... WHY? Why are so many authors with essentially good ideas feeling more and more obliged to write 10,000 pages of "story" when it could... Read more
Published on Feb 26 2002 by snuggles
5.0 out of 5 stars Ahhh, back on track
Otherland pt. 1 was amazing. Part 2 could have been better. But part 3... part 3 is what I was looking for. I read this book quickly and with vigour. Read more
Published on Nov 16 2001 by Jason C. Norman
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