skygiants: Fakir and Duck, from Princess Tutu, with a big question mark over Duck's head (communication difficulty)
I promise this is the last post I'll make talking about Otherland, but the thing is, after I read all of Otherland, I found out Tad Williams had written a postcanon novella which I had never read and which was published in a collection called Legends II.

So Legends II (and, presumably, Legends I, and Legends III if it exists) is basically just a whole bunch of tie-in novellas from People Who Sold Really Fat Fantasy Novels in the Nineties, each preceded by an earnest three-page summary of the FIVE THOUSAND PAGES OF TEXT you are supposed to have read to really appreciate this story. It is a snapshot of a simpler time. A time when everyone really, earnestly believed that there were only going to be six Song of Ice and Fire books.

...obviously I read the whole book, so I'm just going to go down the list.

Robin Hobb )

George R.R. Martin )

Orson Scott Card )

Diana Gabaldon )

Robert Silverberg )

OH TAD WILLIAMS NO )

Anne McCaffrey )

Raymond E. Feist )

Elizabeth Haydon )

Neil Gaiman )

Terry Brooks )

So that was a fun trip down Memory Lane! Ah, fantasy in the nineties. Actually, this book was published in 2004, but it still exudes Essence Of The Nineties. I do count myself lucky that Piers Anthony was not included.

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