Sea of Silver Light

Tad Williams

2001 • 922 pages

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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.

Volume 4 of the [Otherland series](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16026545W/)

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4 primary books6 released books

#4 in Otherland

Otherland is a 6-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Tad Williams.

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Executive Summary: This series is a monster, and thankfully after all those hours, it comes to an enjoyable conclusion.

Audio book: Yup, George Newbern is still excellent. I might have liked this series less in text due to the slow parts, but Mr. Newbern really brings the world and it's characters to life in a way that put him up there in the top tier of audiobook narrators for me.

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This review will be a bit lighter than it probably would have been had I written it a month ago. Time sort of got away from me this month and I've fallen badly behind on my reviews.

Much like other books in this series, I found the plot a bit slow in places, but by the last third things were moving along at such a pace that I hate to stop. Thankfully I got to listen to the last 6 or so hours in one sitting.

The world building is once again the star for me. However several of the characters have become quite dear to me after so many hours spent with them, especially !Xabbu and Fredricks. Renie still annoyed me at times, but far less than in previous books. So obviously she's grown on me too.

I am sad I'll no longer be wandering through the vast expanse of Otherland with our little troupe of explorers, but I'm happy for the time I got to spend with them.

If you're a fan of cyberpunk and epic fantasy, this series to me was just about the perfect blend of those things. I felt that things were wrapped up nicely leaving you wanting more, but satisfied that there isn't.