A group of adventurers looking for an end to comatose children find themselves trapped in a series of digital worlds, the just opponents of a conspiracy from the rich to live forever in a wish. Now, these are forced to create an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former foe against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with an opportunity to play God permanently. Few research fiction sagas possess achieved the level of critical acclaim-and best-selling popularity-as Tad Williams’s Otherland novels. A brilliant blend of science fiction, fantasy, and technothriller, it is a rich, multilayered epic of future possibilities.