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Description edit
Otherland is out of control. Fleeing through broken realities, a small band of adventurers struggle to avert the nightmare that Otherland could become. The only hope may lie in an alliance with their enemy. But time is running out - and Otherland's most terryfying secret is yet to be revealed.
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Characters edit
- Irene 'Renie' Sulewayo: a teacher and the backbone of her family, proud of her African heritage, has fought all her life simply to get by
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- Stone Girl: a girl made of mud by the Other. She led Renie through the heart of the operating system.
- Other: operating system for the Grail network
- Orlando Gardiner: Sam's friend
- Avialle 'Ava' Jongleur: Felix's daughter
- Azador: a Romany traveling through Otherland
- Beezle bug: Orlando's virtual assistant
- Decatur Ramsey: lawyer for the Freddericks family working on solving the cause of Tandagore sindrome
- Carlos Andreas Chascarillo Izabal 'Cho Cho': a poor boy helping Sellars
- Kaylene Sorensen: Christabel's mother
- Michael Sorensen: major Sorensen in Christabel's father
- Mister Sellars: a strange old man in a military base, a prisoner of both government and his own body
- Florimel: a German woman stuck in Otherland with Renie, !Xabbu, T4b and Martine
- Martine Desroubins: Rennie's blind friend in Otherland network
- !Xabbu: A Bushman. He came to the city to learn skills which may save the spirit of his tribe.
- Salome Melissa 'Sam' Fredericks: Orlando's friend also known as the thief Pithlith
- Felix Jongleur: aka Osiris, the oldest and richest person in the world, leader of The Grail Brotherhood and the creator of Otherland
- Paul Jonas: a museum curator and Avialle Jongleur's teacher who is trapped in Otherland
- Hideki Kunohara: the owner of the bug world
- John 'Dread' Wulgaru: a hacker-killer working for Jongleur
- Dulcinea Anwyn: Dread's helper
- Christabel Sorensen: daughter of an officer and she is helping Sellars
- 'Long' Joseph Sulewayo: Renie's father
- Jeremiah Dako: he is looking after Rennie And !Xabbu in V-tanks
- Del Ray Chiume: Rennie's ex boyfirend and a businessman
- Calliope Skouros: a detective investigating the murder of Polly Merapanui
- Stanley Chan: Calliope's coworker
- Olga Pirofsky: one of the people impersonating Uncle Jingle
- T4b: a boy stuck in Otherland with Renie, !Xabbu, Martine and Florimel
Quotes edit
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“Christabel was beginning to learn a scary thing about grown-ups. Sometimes they said things would be all right, but they didn’t know they’d be all right. They just said it. Bad things could happen, even to little kids. Especially to little kids.”
Setting & Locations edit
Otherland network, Australia
- Mountain of black glass: an incredibly tall mountain that was made of black glass
- Dodge City: a place in from the Wild West times destroyed by Dread
- Drakensberg mountains: the place where Rennie's and !Xabbu's bodies are
- fairy world: a place created by Other
- bug world: a place owned by Hideki Kunohara, where people are shrunk to a size of bugs
First Sentence edit
He was tossed, fragmented, part of the outward-collapsing whirl of shattered light.
Table of Contents edit
Foreword
First: A Voyage in the Heart
1 Strange Bedfellows
2 Execution Sweet
3 Restless Natives
4 In Silver Dreaming
5 The Last Fish to Swallow
6 Talking to Machines
7 The man from Mars
8 Listening to the Nothing
9 Hannibal's Return
10 The Land of Glass and Air
Second: Ghost Songs
11 Yours Very Sincerely
12 The Boy in the Well
13 King Johnny
14 The Stone Girl
15 Confessional
16 Badlands
17 Breathing Problems
18 Making a Witch
19 The Bravest Man in the World
20 Thompson's Iron
21 Handling Snakes
22 More Very Bush
Third: The Dying Hour
23 Orientation
24 Getting out of Dodge
25 The Hidden Bridge
26 Flies and Spiders
27 The Green Steeple
28 Master of his Silence
29 Stony Limits
30 Climbing the Mountain
31 Romany Fair
32 Bad House
Fourth: Sorrow's Children
33 Weekend Hours
34 Desert Smile
35 Rainbow's Shoe
36 Without a Net
37 The Locked Room
38 Boy in Darkness
39 Broken Angel
40 The Third Head of Cerberus
41 Playing the Knight
42 Old School
43 Tears of Ra
44 Stolen Voices
45 Send
46 Thoughts Like Smoke
47 Star Over Louisiana
48 Unreal Bodies
49 The Next
Fifth: Inheritors
50 No Promises
51 Watching Cars Explode
52 The Oracle Surprised
53 A Borrowed House
Afterword
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 5 in Otherland. (standard series)
Preceded by Mountain of Black Glass.
This is book 1181 of 911 in DAW Books. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Tad Williams (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: DAW Books
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: April 10, 2001
ISBN: 0886779774
Page Count: 922
Publisher: DAW Books
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: April 10, 2001
ISBN: 0886779774
Page Count: 922
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3573.I45563 S43 2001
- Dewey: 813.54 21
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