Book Review: Sea of Silver Light

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Tad Williams
Class/Genre:   SF AND Fantasy
Series: Otherland # 4
Daw, Apr 2001, $24.95, 917 pp.

The Grail Brotherhood control OTHERLAND, a place where reality is checked at the dimensional portal and dreams and nightmares can become real. Human children find the OTHERLAND an enticing landscape in which they never mentally return as they remain in a comatose state.

Led by the enigmatic Mr. Sellers, a horde of earthlings begins efforts to penetrate the veil. At the same time, the Grail Brotherhood begins the final ritual that will make them immortal. However, both plans fail as a former human servant Johnny Dread kills all but the leader of the Grail Brotherhood. Dread starts his own quest to become God with only a shaky alliance between the surviving Grail and Mr. Sellers' band standing in his way of success.

The fourth in Tad Williams' OVERLAND series, SEA OF SILVER LIGHT, is a tremendous accomplishment that shows that the author is the leader of the science fiction fantasy world. The story line is loaded with action and filled with even more action as well as an intriguing look at the universe. The novel is not only superb, but Mr. Williams ties up his loose ends from the previous three stories. If you read any novel from the cross-genre realm, this is the one.

Harriet Klausner

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