Humiliation Scale:
- 1 Tomato Face for being fantasy set in a future Earth
- 2nd for being a 4000 page, door-stopper of a tetralogy
Mitigating Features:
- an excellent series
- I've been wanting to read it for years
- interesting reminder of the !Kung Bushmen; refresher anthro course
- prophetic look at our online, virtual reality lives
- Did the creators of Second Life read this series? I think so!
A evil cabal of the super-rich have developed a way to cheat death. Unfortunately, this leap forward is at the cost of thousands of children. An unlikely assortment of heroes enter into the Otherland VR simulation in an attempt to rescue their own friends and relatives from the predations of the rogue operating system.
Very very odd. After almost 4 thousand pages, I was very glad to finally finish this series. I did not ever absolutely love it, but this was a very well crafted world with plausible villains and heroes. As a self-referential tribute to The Lord of the Rings, it was enjoyable on that level as well.
I would recommend it to anyone who has a lot of spare time on their hands and doesn't mind investing a couple weeks of their life to this experience.
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