Otherland

C.Hill

For those of you who don't know (meaning probably everyone), my favorite book series ever is "Otherland" by Tad Williams. I just recently found out that it's being made into a video game!! It's a F2P MMORPG/Action/whatever, which is kinda scary, but it actually looks really good! I've suddenly lost interest in The Secret World... lol

Grez

Holy. Shit. I've read that entire series (big Tad Williams fan). Man, I may actually have to break down and play a MMORPG. Crap. lol

SacredTbag

Give me an MMO based on either Terry Brooks' or Robin Hobb's (Farseer or Liveship series please) works and I'll be a VERY happy camper

I've never heard of the author or the book series. Wiki says Sci-Fi/Fantasy, which is right up my alley. Might be something to look into.

C.Hill

I'm not the biggest fan of MMOs either, but hell, this one's F2P, so definitely at least worth a try!

I highly recommend it. Big focus on technology, so it draws us technophiles in like flies to honey

Grez

Yeah, TBag...you should check out Tad's stuff. He's pretty long-winded (I mean, the shortest of the four Otherland books is somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 pages...in hardback), but that shouldn't be an issue considering you like Robin Hobb (I do too), who is not quite as wordy, but pretty close. His first fantasy series was called Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (specifically titled The Dragonbone Chair, The Stone of Farewell, and To Green Angel Tower [2 volumes in paperback, one in HB]), and you can usually find hardbacks of it at any cool used book store for $5-$10 each. You'll find the main character, who starts as just a boy in the beginning, a little whiney, but it's appropriate as he's just an irritating kid...hang in there, as it gets good pretty fast and he grows up to be decidedly not a douche.

Otherland was a very forward-thinking future-of-the-internet cyber adventure, and given where technology is going (and it IS going there if you believe Ray Kurtzweil), it's not only astute, but plausible. It's not even a traditional quadrilogy, but rather one long-ass story that he had to break into four humongous volumes. Pretty cool all around.

SacredTbag

I've nothing against "long windedness" in books. Most of the series I read are in the neighborhood of 10-14 books, and I've been known to knock out a whole set in just a couple months.

C.Hill

Yes, plausible indeed. The believability of it all was one of my favorite things about the Otherland series. That sense of "Hey, this could really happen, and may very well happen within my lifetime" is really pretty cool! Speaking of Ray Kurtzweil, has anyone read any of his books? The computer science ones, I'm not so interested in the nutrition ones lol. I've been meaning to pick up "The Singularity is Near" but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Grez

I'm reading The Singularity is Near right now...almost done. Some of it sounds crazy, but a lot of his stuff that sounded crazy in the past came true. He's at about a 90% hit rate. Kinda scary, actually.

I'm also reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at the same time, 'cause I wanted to read it before I saw the movie.

C.Hill

Very cool! I haven't read that book nor seen either of the movies, but I have a dragon tattoo, so that counts for something right?! lol

Otherland13

Otherland
Otherland , the best-selling works around 2000 by Tad William, is by no means strange to science fiction zealots.
And now this fantastic multiverse world, which is teeming with countless virtual reality termed simply as the Net
depicted in the fiction, will come into life vividly in the virtual cyber space of its namesake MMO.
Guess you will like Reign of Thunder and RaiderZ

furball zen

Wtf^ ^ ^ ^

Grez

That is some strangely on-topic spam. lol

I'm going to leave it be for now and see what, if anything, we have to still look forward to.

Canavi

Woah, this looks awesome.

SacredTbag

^ Aaah it's a zombie back from the dead! What's up man?

Grez

Duuuuuddddeee! Wow, a bunch of the vets are suddenly showing up again. Killer.

furball zen

Whos der new guy? Never seen his posts.

SacredTbag

I remember him from back in the day. Been gone a couple years now I think.