by Tad Williams

Sea of Silver Light is the final book of the Otherland series.

1. City of Golden Shadow
2. River of Blue Fire
3. Mountain of Black Glass
4. Sea of Silver Light

Otherland, a private, multi-dimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century, had been one of the world’s best kept secrets, created and controlled by an organization made up of the world’s most powerful and ruthless individuals, a private cartel know - to those who of their existence at all - as The Grail Brotherhood.

But when far too many children fell prey to Otherland, a small band of adventurers, marhsaled together by the mysterious being known as Mr. Sellers, set out to penetrate the veil of secrecy that prevented the uninitiated entering Otherland. Once there, they found themselves trapped in the seemingly endless worlds of the Otherland network, unable to escape back to their own flesh-and-blood bodies in the real world. Their only hope for survival, and for the children they’d come to rescue, was to make their way through the Otherland network to the terrifying void at the heart of the system.

But even as Renie Sulaweyo, !Xabbu, Paul Jonas, and the rest struggled through the maze of invented worlds, time was growing short. The Brotherhood’s plans for immortality within the network had been shattered by the monstrous intelligence that ran the network, a presence know only as the Other, and by an even more monstrous human being who called himself John Dread, the psychopath who once served the Grail Network, but who now had made himself the god of this virtual universe, and who was systematically turning the network’s worlds into killing grounds. Even his old master, the arch-magnate Felix Jongleur, Otherland’s creator, was now helplessly forced to make common cause with Renie and the others.

Trapped in the surreal and deadly landscapes of the failing network, Renie, !Xabbu, Sam Fredericks, Martine, and their companions fought their way toward the system’s heart, struggling against increasing odds to save the children, solve the bizarre mysteries of Otherland, and escape back to reality.

But before long there might not be a ‘real’ world to return to for any of them. For destroying his employer’s playground was merely a dres rehearsal for Johnny Dread. Dread’s ultimate plan was to gain control of Jongleur’s massive corporate holdings and spread apocalyptic destruction throughout the entire Earth…