![]() ![]() Is he hallucinating? - I've yet to find out. He's a bit scared, a bit shell-shocked, and goes wandering off across no man's land and ends up somewhere that can't be real. The first chapter introduces Paul Jonas, who's in the trenches in WW1. Williams does an admirable job of manipulating the multiple story threads, which start out completely separate from one another, gradually interweave, and all join up at the end. In her review at SF Site, Rebecca Strauss reckons it's. A bit addictive, maybe?Īnyhow, I started reading City of Golden Shadow just over a week ago. Tad has that skill, a way of drawing me into his stories and the world they're set in, that makes me not want to leave. Like the MST trilogy and the, to-date, other three books based in Osten Ard it was another book I didn't want to put down until I got to the end, but had to sleep and do other things to keep my own real world ticking along - which I resented a bit. That's actually why I quite like the broader term of Speculative Fiction, it is less exclusive and embraces more literature.īut then I've recently read The War of the Flowers, a standalone portal fantasy with a one-way portal. When I was told that Tad's Otherland was up there at the top of his best work I wasn't so sure how it could be, I mean the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy is his best, how could he match that? And Otherland is labelled as Science Fiction, something I don't read very often. ![]()
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