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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 2   Tcubed | Sep 22, 2009 |  This is the last of the 4 volume series and I have to admit it was not a let down. After 4 books the story was still gripping and fun. A true epic which would be enjoyed by everyone! This book follows Renie, !Xabbu and the others as they try to save the Other from being "killed" by Dread. If he dies they all die and their quest would come to an end that none of them wanted. Sellars brings in re-enforcements though in the Olga, Cho-Cho and Cristabel - but can they make the difference? The other is scared and thinks his time his up so how does Sellars think these three people can help? A great book which in the end after 4 volumes still shows that good wins at the end. But even good suffers and learns from the events of what others think is the future of the world! Once you have tried the first on of this series you will read them all fairly quickly after each other. It is a series you will enjoy and even though you will be disappointed that it is all over you will not be with the storyline that is for sure! (  )1 StuartAston | Aug 30, 2009 | The conclusion of this epic. In the real world, the intrepid police close in on the aboriginal assassin, as the quest in the virtual world comes to a final confrontation. The conclusion is what you might call bittersweet, but upbeat, as the relationship between the two young gameplayers has developed over the events of the story. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2006/12... (  ) bluetyson | Dec 13, 2008 | Wraps things up with a bang in a neat package. Very solid, very good series. "Snowcrash" was recommended to me as being similar to this series, and at least as good. (  ) Cecrow | Dec 14, 2007 | See book 1 for the full review. This continued the excellence from the previous books. (  ) Karlstar | Aug 24, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com's Best of 2001 (ISBN 0756400309, Paperback)With Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams completes his massive Otherland quartet, one of SF's more intriguing explorations of the eroding boundaries of the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead. Otherland is a sequence that contains many secrets, and Williams plays fair by unpacking all of them in the final book. A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever.Williams manages a vast cast of emotionally involving characters with considerable panache, but the real strength of the book is its endlessly questing intelligence; it is, among other things, an enquiry into the nature of storytelling as a way for human beings to give structure to their perceptions of the universe around them. It is as story that Sea of Silver Light ultimately works so well--involving us in the grueling descent of a vast mountain, the siege of an underground fortress, gun battles in a nightmare Wild West. Williams never neglects to tell us how things feel. He efficiently ties up every plot strand and convincingly reveals every secret in this large, complex plot. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Wow. Very rich in detail, beautifully formed and characterized characters. Working through thoroughly twisted convolutions. the story finally makes a conclusion. And while the main cut and thrust of the plot can be guessed at, the depth of depravity of the main villan is something truly Machiavellian, and yet purely human self interest driven. The portrail of the psychological hold the villan's 'wet work' sidekick has over his prey is brilliant.
My only complaint - which is not really a complaint, would be the length of the ending, it seemed to keep telescoping out. But I didn't find it distractingly so, just surprisingly so. Rather than take away from the story, I felt it actually added to and completed the story far better.
I would not recommend this as a first time fantasy or fiction reader - especially the first few books - and starting to read from the middle would really destroy the story experience.
But to an experienced fantasy or fiction reader, VERY VERY highly recomend it!