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.