Loved itThis book is phenomenal. So much so that I went and got a signed edition of it.
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City of Golden Shadow (1991)
Others: Leaning positive The not so distant future where everybody has a second life in cyberspace. A growing sub-culture of cyberfolk and cyberpunks who are spending less and less time in the physical world, and ever increasing time 'plugged in'. But there is trouble brewing. Someone or something is trapping users 'online'. A rag-tag assortment of elite cybercitizens band together to stop the invasion. Volume 1 of the Otherland series
- ISBN:
- 9780886777630
- Length:
- 780 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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Loved it
MixedI read the first book in his otherland series I'm do that one next yeah his Sci-Fi series and I really liked it initially I thought the World building was great I quite liked his Pros I liked his characters and then 200 pages later not that much had happened 400 Pages later not much had happened and by the end of book one it almost felt like I'd read like a 700 page prologue there really there really wasn't much payoff for finishing book one
Mixedthis book on its own city of golden Shadow is not enough to give you a complete story it's just the beginning it opens everything up and it's really exciting the whole time and then it just ends and it's very abrupt which is why I didn't give it a five stars