But before they can stop the Brotherhood, they must solve the mysteries of Otherland itself and confront its darkest secret – an entity known only as the Other… Jacket art by Michael Whelan. Tolkien. All are striving to reach Priam’s Walls before the date set by the Grail Brotherhood for the ceremony when they will make their bid for immortality and thereby seal the fate of Earth’s children forever. Praise for the Otherland series: ' Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists working in what is so often, and so inaccurately, described as the tradition of J.R.R. Paul’s memories of who she was and what she had meant to him had been removed…Yet her cryptic messages were his only hope of survival in the incredibly complex virtual reality world known as Otherland…where a terminally ill teenage boy defends his life in a war-torn simulated Ancient Egypt where Orlando Gardiner has been called to Priam’s Walls in Ancient Troy where the Grail Brotherhood has built the most powerful simulation network imaginable and injured the minds of thousands of children and Renie Sulaweyo has broken into the Otherland network in a desperate search for the cause of her brother Stephen’s death-like coma as she and her companions navigate an unfinished land and a seemingly endless labyrinthine house, pursuing a sociopathic killer who has stolen one of their number. There is a place, a black mountain that reaches to. There is a place, a black mountain that reaches to the sky – that covers up the stars. The oddly beautiful winged woman with sad eyes had a dream-message for Paul Jonas. The oddly beautiful winged woman with sad eyes had a dream-message for Paul Jonas. Tad Williams prides himself on the interweaving of multiple plot threads and enormous casts of characters, and even more on having the reader actually care.

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