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Tad Williams

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in San Jose, California, The United States

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Tad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. His genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions worldwide, in twenty-five languages. His considerable output of epic fantasy and science fiction book-series, stories of all kinds, urban fantasy novels, comics, scripts, etc., have strongly influenced a generation of writers: the ‘Otherland’ epic relaunches June 2018 as an MMO on steam.com. Tad is currently immersed in the creation of ‘The Last King of Osten Ard’, planned as a trilogy with two intermediary novels. He, his family and his animals live in the Santa Cruz mountains in a suitably strange and beautiful house. @tadwilliams @mrstad

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Average rating: 4.03 · 428,813 ratings · 19,324 reviews · 348 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 78,301 ratings — published 1988 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3) 4.21 avg rating — 57,443 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 53,282 ratings — published 1990 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 28,888 ratings — published 1996 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3; Part 2) 4.23 avg rating — 24,407 ratings — published 1993 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 17,034 ratings — published 1998 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mountain of Black Glass (Otherland, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 16,574 ratings — published 1999 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea of Silver Light (Otherland, #4) 4.15 avg rating — 14,941 ratings — published 2001 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tailchaser's Song 3.98 avg rating — 13,211 ratings — published 1985 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadowmarch (Shadowmarch, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 12,745 ratings — published 2004 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (3 books)
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Vzpomínka, Žal a Trn (7 books)
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Otherland (4 books)
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“As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.”
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“He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”
― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

tags: ending, foolish, wisdom, wonder

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“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”
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Spring/Summer 2013 Series Final Round - What series will we start reading in June 2013?

Below are the top five from our first round of voting.

The top two will be our next group reads. Whichever one is the 'darker' or 'grittier' series will fall into the Alternate Series group read slot (starts on the 15th of each month). The other 'lighter' one will be the 1st of the month group read.

Glen Cook Chronicle of the Black Company (12 books)

49 votes, 25.5%

Roger Zelazny Chronicles of Amber (10 books)

44 votes, 22.9%

Tad Williams Shadowmarch series (4 books)

39 votes, 20.3%

Gene Wolfe Book of the New Sun series (4 books)

34 votes, 17.7%

Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth series (12 books)

26 votes, 13.5%

192 total votes

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Jul 16, 2017 12:07AM

Thanks for friending. Love the Otherland Series! One of the most imaginative things I've read in a long time. Still have to get to some of your other work! Peace!

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