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15 Reddit comments about City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1):

u/wallish · 18 pointsr/scifi

While not my favorite ever I really enjoyed the Otherland series (only four volumes but each book is fairly large).

It's entertaining cyberpunk and features some interesting looks at the future. Very enjoyable read.

Another (shorter) series that is good for a quick read and a lighter introduction to scifi is The Risen Empire. Split into two parts (although together they would have made an only slightly-large novel) it's along the border of Hard Scifi and "pulp scifi". I'd consider it as an okay introduction to hard scifi.

Which leads me to the third and forth series, Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space. Reynold's is hard scifi, meaning that there are points where he spends twice as much time describing the technical details when character advancement would be very much welcome. However, this also means he takes into account things like relativistic travel and how boring space battles would be to spectators. Awesome books though.

Last but not least is the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's hard scifi that doesn't lose sight of character development. Also, out of all the books I've mentioned I'd have to call it the most "realistic" as the technological point at which it starts could conceivably be reached in the next decade or so.

All enjoyable reads, all enjoyable scifi. After (or during) these don't forget to check out classics like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Banks, etc. Especially Asimov's Foundation books or the short(ish) story Nightfall, although the original short story can easily be considered better than the expanded version linked (so you might want to stop reading when you reach the end of the original).

u/Hip_Fridge · 10 pointsr/books

Two series I can recommend off the top of my head, both of which I couldn't put down during the first readthrough and never get tired of re-reading:

  • Tad Williams' "Otherland" quadrilogy

  • Alastair Reynold's "Revelation Space" universe series (and subsequent novellas)

    And if you want a single book to tide you over while searching, the 832-page The War of the Flowers (also by Williams) was a riveting read.

    *edited for linkage
u/limbodog · 8 pointsr/books

Tad Williams' "Otherland" series.

u/psyferre · 7 pointsr/WoT

Sounds like you might enjoy Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. I think Snow Crash is meant to be in the same universe - it's hilarious but not as dense. You might also like his Cryptonomicon, though it's not technically Sci Fi.

Tad Willams' Otherland Series is Epic Sci Fi with a huge amount of detail. Might be right up your alley.

Dune, Neuromancer and The Enderverse if you haven't already read those.

u/[deleted] · 4 pointsr/books

It's earth bound but you may like Tad Williams' Otherland series. More fantasy than sci-fi but it blends both rather well.

u/iSeven · 3 pointsr/pcmasterrace

Other works of fiction that contain the concept of a metaverse;

Books

u/mylittleponyhell · 3 pointsr/himynameisjay

[This is the first sci-fi series] (http://www.amazon.com/City-Golden-Shadow-Otherland-Volume/dp/0886777631) I read as an adult. I remember enjoying it but it was almost 15yrs ago.

u/justinmchase · 3 pointsr/oculus

Believe it or not there are quite a few good sci-fi books exploring these ideas already. Here is an incomplete list you may want to check out:

  • Snow Crash where it's called the 'Metaverse'
  • Otherland where it's called 'Otherland'
  • Neuromancer where it's called 'The Matrix' (pre-dates the movie by the same name by more than 10 years, fyi)
  • Hyperion where it's called the 'data plane'.
u/ryushe · 3 pointsr/suggestmeabook

The Otherland series by Tad Williams might be what you're looking for. There's four books in the series, and it deals mostly with a futuristic virtual reality game world. Can't tell you more than that without spoiling it.

u/Monster_Claire · 2 pointsr/scifi

I can't believe no one has said the "Otherland" series by Tad Williams.
I think it's his best work.

Only one of the major characters doesn't know he is in a virtual reality but almost all of the characters visit multiple virtual worlds and try to discover it's secrets. There is an amazingly diverse cast of wonderfully real characters. check it out

u/neodiogenes · 2 pointsr/reddit.com

Ok, possibly secret nugget of awesome: Tad Williams' Otherland series. Starts off fairly slow but when it gets going, you're in for a good, long ride, as there are four books in the series, each with nearly 1000 pages.

Also, Connie Willis has a clever, almost frenetic writing style that I really enjoy. I particularly liked To Say Nothing of the Dog but she has a number of novels that involve her own particular take on time travel.

An older classic that not everyone reads, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Like Frank Herbert, Wolfe definitely writes for adults, and also like Herbert it's hard to say whether what he has to say is really significant or if he's just pulling philosophy from his ass.

u/Anubisghost · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

You might like Tad Williams Otherland series.

u/Grimjestor · 1 pointr/reddit.com

In that case, sir, I remove my nonexistent hat to you. I do not own a smartphone, as I already own a phone and consider myself smart enough already.

When I can close my eyes and be online, then and only then shall I consider moving with the wave of current technology.

Yes, I have high standards... but what is the point of standards if you do not keep them high?

u/ConnorSuttree · 1 pointr/gaming

It'll be like this.