Susan Van Bleeck gets beaten to death by the Brotherhood's thugs, but manages to spell out a dying message to Renie with finger typing.There are no words to describe how poorly this works out for her. All Girls Want Bad Boys: Dulcinea Anwin, a hacker-for-hire who's bored with the ennui of her quasi-criminal life, falls for Dread's "animalistic charm" and the thrill of danger that surrounds him.He drinks to escape the pain, leaving his daughter Renie to be the de facto parent in the Sulaweyo household. The Alcoholic: Long Joseph's wife died in a fire, driving him to a personal Despair Event Horizon.A double subversion occurs post-climax with Sellars' AI entities, who are not malicious but merely alien.Is it good or evil? Insane or misunderstood? The answer ends up subverting the trope, as the Other is not, in fact, an AI. The Other is cast as this, with much speculation from the characters as to why and how it has such bizarre characteristics.In the case of Sweet William and t4B, they're going by their online handles. Justified because the characters are drawn from across the world (with !Xabbu's name being a traditional South African bushpeople name.
Aerith and Bob: Renie, Martine, Orlando, Sam, Florimel, Sweet William, !Xabbu, and t4B.Admiring the Abomination: At one point one of the heroes notes that as evil and twisted as Jongleur is, there is something magnificent about a man who's declared war on death itself.The AI characters react to Orlando being too sick to fight (because of his progeria) as if he's stubbornly refusing, exactly as in The Iliad, and when Sam dons Achilles' armor in unwitting imitation of the myth, Orlando is forced to ride out and rescue her from Hector. Achilles in His Tent: In the Trojan War simulation, Orlando is placed in the role of Achilles, while Sam is Patroclus.Abusive Parents: The Freudian Excuse of John Dread, whose mother used her string of pimps and boyfriends to try and shape him into a walking nightmare.There is a (work in progress) Character Sheet.Ī now-defunct based on the world of the novels was released in 2015. The story could also be read as a Fantastic Aesop about the dangers of seeking Immortality. It's notable for having a fantastically diverse cast and treating them all with respect. This despite the fairly standard Cyberpunk setting and rather more pages than necessary spent on the way to each plot point. 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 about what happens to them. If this sounds like a long synopsis, wait until you read the books themselves. With Sellars' help, they break into this system looking for clues, only to be trapped within the network, unable to "disconnect" and return to their bodies. Their apparent goal is to create a computer simulation more powerful than anything that has ever been seen before, called the Grail Network by its creators but Otherland by the few outsiders who know of it. As they delve further into these mysteries, they encounter a secretive figure named Sellars who tells them that the comas are connected to a conspiracy of the world's elite known as the Grail Brotherhood. It follows a disparate group of ordinary people whose lives become entwined in the discovery that thousands of children around the world are falling into comas that are seemingly related to their use of the 'Net.
The story is set 20 Minutes into the Future, where corporate entities are as or more powerful than governments and the Internet has become a Metaverse with its own private virtual reality environments.
#TAD WILLIAMS OTHERLAND ART SERIES#
Otherland is an epic Post-Cyberpunk novel series written by Tad Williams, comprising four volumes:
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