The Deathless Prince and the Peach Maiden
An incredible novella set in the Otherland Universe by New York Times bestselling author Tad Williams.
When Orlando Gardiner's physical body died, his mind was lost to the massive simworld known as Otherland. Today he has come to the Great Wall of China in the Ming Dynasty. This part of the sim was closed years before when it was revealed it was attached to the real world. Today, cleared of its past troubles, Orlando opens it again, but the moment he does so he is challenged with a near impossible quest: to rescue a Peach Maiden who has been abducted to the demon-ruled Metal Isle. Orlando cannot refuse, little knowing that the deadly interface between truth and reality remains dangerously open.
Tad Williams
Tad Williams (US, born 1957) has held more jobs than any sane person should admit to – singing in a band, selling shoes, managing a financial institution, throwing newspapers, and designing military manuals, to name just a few. He also hosted a syndicated radio show for ten years, worked in theater and television production, taught both grade-school and college classes, and worked in multimedia for a major computer firm. He is cofounder of an interactive television company, and is currently writing comic books and film and television scripts as well. Tad and his family live in London and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Otherland
This classic, genre-bending cyberpunk quartet from a master fantasist explores the vast virtual reality of Otherland, where the danger is terrifyingly real.
Otherland consists of four books, and the series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
