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Otherlands: A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller

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Vivid... An intricate analysis of our planet's interconnected past, it is impossible to come away from Otherlands without awe for what may lie ahead Amancai Biraben, Independent Vivid . . . An intricate analysis of our planet’s interconnected past, it is impossible to come away from Otherlands without awe for what may lie ahead.” — Independent

inquisitivebiologist (2022-03-15). "Book review – Otherlands: A World in the Making". The Inquisitive Biologist . Retrieved 2022-08-28. Best-Selling Novels Become MMOG". IGN. October 1, 2008. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008 . Retrieved April 21, 2009.Orlando Gardiner—a young boy suffering from progeria who is drawn to Otherland while playing a virtual reality MMORPG called Middle Country, in which he is the Barbarian hero Thargor.

Johnny "Dread" Wulgaru (Anubis)—a half-Aboriginal Australian psychopath obsessed with rape and murder, employed as an assassin by the Grail Brotherhood. He possesses the ability to mentally interfere with machines, allowing him to do many seemingly impossible things. He refers to this ability as his twist. Otherlands is one of those rare books that's both deeply informative and daringly imaginative. It will change the way you look at the history of life, and perhaps also its future Elizabeth Kolbert, author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION Superb... [An] epic, near-hallucinatory natural history of the living earth... Dazzling Simon Ings, Telegraph This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python chase a group of australopithecines into an acacia tree; to a cliff overlooking the salt pans of the empty basin of what will be the Mediterranean Sea just as water from the Miocene Atlantic Ocean spills in; into the tropical forests of Eocene Antarctica; and under the shallow pools of Ediacaran Australia, where we glimpse the first microbial life.

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A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. McNary, Dave (19 January 2012). "Warners, Lin off to 'Otherland': Studio lands feature rights to Tad Williams' sci-fi tomes". Variety . Retrieved 22 January 2012. Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator.

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