Child of an Ancient City (London: Legend, 1992) with Nina Kiriki Hoffman.The Heart of What Was Lost (New York: DAW Books, 2017).A Stark and Wormy Knight (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2012).The War of the Flowers (New York: DAW Books, 2003).Caliban's Hour (London: Legend, 1994).Tailchaser's Song (New York: DAW Books, 1985).Sleeping Late on Judgement Day (New York: DAW Books, 2014).Happy Hour in Hell (New York: DAW Books, 2013).The Dirty Streets of Heaven (New York: DAW Books, 2012).Into the Narrowdark (New York: DAW Books, 2022).Empire of Grass (New York: DAW Books, 2019).The Witchwood Crown (New York: DAW Books, 2017).Shadowheart (New York: DAW Books, 2010).Shadowrise (New York: DAW Books, 2010).Shadowplay (New York: DAW Books, 2007).Shadowmarch (New York: DAW Books, 2004).Sea of Silver Light (New York: DAW Books, 2001).Mountain of Black Glass (New York: DAW Books, 1999).River of Blue Fire (New York: DAW Books, 1998).City of Golden Shadow (New York: DAW Books, 1996).Brothers of the Wind (New York: DAW Books, 2021).To Green Angel Tower: Storm (London: Orbit, 1994).
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Much of the pleasure of the extended series (well over 3,000 pages) derives from characters' (and readers') explorations of individual virtual realities, several of which replicate (and distort) famous tales and fables, including The Iliad, Lewis Carroll's Alice books, L Frank Baum's Oz books, and H G Wells's The War of the Worlds ( 1898). Dozens of other characters, whose trajectories through the worlds are sometimes very vividly described, make it difficult to retain a sense of Jonas's possible importance to the outcome of the tale. There are hints from the first of the importance of Paul Jonas, a human soldier who awakens from World War One into the virtual reality universe, which he traverses, burdened by onslaughts of Amnesia whenever he crosses a boundary. The relationship between these worlds and mundane reality has some similarity to that which obtains in a sophisticated Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, except that the immersion is total, and escape from the created worlds may be at the behest of the Grail Brotherhood. Williams then turned to sf with the Otherland sequence – comprising City of Golden Shadow ( 1996), River of Blue Fire ( 1998), Mountain of Black Glass ( 1999) and Sea of Silver Light ( 2001) – a Near Future series set primarily in a complex set of Virtual Reality worlds under the control of a cabal of Secret Masters who we learn are collectively called the Grail Brotherhood.
Two novellas followed: Child of an Ancient City (first version Fall 1988 Weird Tales by Williams alone 1992 chap) with Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Caliban's Hour ( 1994), the later revisiting and reinterpreting William Shakespeare's The Tempest (performed circa 1611 1623) from the supposed Monster's viewpoint. The The Last King of Osten Ard a sequel sequence beginning with The Witchwood Crown ( 2017) appeared much later in Williams's career it is set a thousand years later. Working name of US author Robert Paul Williams (1957- ), almost all of whose work has been fantasy, including his first novel, Tailchaser's Song ( 1985), and whose most influential work is the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn sequence comprising The Dragonbone Chair ( 1988), Stone of Farewell ( 1990) and To Green Angel Tower ( 1993 vt in 2 vols Siege 1994 UK and Storm 1994 UK), which is Fantasy.
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