Otherland: River Of Blue Fire [Paperback] Williams, Tad

The second book in Tad Williams' massive cyberpunk quartet drops you deeper into the most dangerous virtual reality ever conceived. Renie Sulaweyo and her band of mismatched allies are trapped inside Otherland — a network of impossibly detailed simulated worlds built by the rich and ruthless. Each reality they cross is more elaborate and lethal than the last: from ancient Egypt to a Kansas farmhouse straight out of a fever dream. The mystery tightens: who's pulling the strings? Why are children falling into unexplained comas? And how do you fight enemies who control the very laws of physics? Williams builds worlds with obsessive detail and populates them with characters who feel real even when nothing else does. Epic in scope, meticulous in execution, and impossible to put down once the current catches you. For readers who want their science fiction huge, strange, and uncompromising.