In a strange world of the near future, where virtual reality encompasses all aspects of society and boundaries are limited only by the power of the imagination, a dark conspiracy involving the world's most powerful individuals threatens to destroy everything.
Otherland Séries
Cette saga épique plonge dans les profondeurs de la réalité virtuelle, où les frontières entre le monde réel et le monde numérique s'estompent. Suivez un groupe de héros improbables alors qu'ils découvrent un sombre complot entourant un réseau en ligne vaste et immersif. Alors que ce monde numérique menace de consommer ses utilisateurs, ils doivent lutter contre la montre pour exposer la vérité et combattre les forces qui cherchent à contrôler l'humanité. C'est une aventure palpitante remplie de mystère, d'action et de questions profondes sur notre existence.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
Otherland. Vol. 2. River of Blue Fire
- 816pages
- 29 heures de lecture
Otherland, an incredibly complex and detailed virtual reality, has appeared. Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares of its users and its creators. Vast amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have laboured to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource - its children. The story begun in OTHERLAND continues in this, the second volume of an astonishing series which is destined to become a landmark in imaginative fiction.
After receiving a cryptic message that supposedly contains the key to surviving in the virtual reality network known as "Otherland, " Orlando Gardner and his companions find themselves navigating a treacherous course as they attempt to save the life of a member of their group who has been kidnapped.
Otherland. Vol. 4. Sea of Silver Light
- 1312pages
- 46 heures de lecture
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