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Return to Tad Williams' Otherland
posted: 04:38 pm ET
08 September 1999

Return to Tad Williams' Otherland Tad Williams' Otherland books put a fresh millennial spin on the idea that the worlds we explore (and build) in the near future will bring our story back around to its origins. As such, space.com is proud to share an exclusive excerpt from the new installment in the series.

Mountain of Black Glass, hitting the shelves in September, continues the adventures of Renie, !Xabbu, Paul and the rest as they skip between the high-tech world of the near now and the Otherland Network, a limitless virtual-reality environment occupied by Barsoom and other realms created by the imagination.


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Mountain of Black Glass Excerpt: 'House of the Beast'


Tad Williams Talks About Otherland, Other Planets


Mountain of Black Glass: Foreword

Fans have been waiting for Mountain for more than a year since the last volume, River of Blue Fire, left Renie and the rest stranded in the Place of the Lost, a seemingly unfinished world without light or native inhabitants.

Now, in Mountain, Williams picks up the best-selling series where he left off, gathering his diverse band of characters from the border countries between archaic myth and the cybernetic future, the dawn of human consciousness and its twilight.

This is the story of our struggle to hold onto the worlds of our futuristic imagining -- whether they are found in inner space or outer space -- while keeping the memory of our past safe for our children.

Read the foreword to Mountains of Black Glass or our exclusive online excerpt of a complete chapter taken from later in the book. Our interview with Tad Williams also contains more information about the series and how it relates to the science fiction tradition and humanity's drive to populate new worlds.

Excerpt One: Foreword
Excerpt Two: House of the Beast (chapter three)
Interview with Tad Williams


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