City of Golden Shadow
- 784
- Pages
- about 14 h
- Reading time
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About the book
City of Golden Shadow, originally published as Otherland, is a science fiction novel by American writer Tad Williams, the first book in his Otherland series. The "Otherland" refers to a virtual world or worlds and the "City Of Golden Shadow" is a city in the Otherland network to which the main characters are being summoned.
Reading order · Otherland
Full order & progress →- City of Golden ShadowThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - River of Blue Fire
7.77.7 / 10 - Mountain of Black Glass
7.97.9 / 10 - Sea of Silver Light
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 169 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.1 | 15 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 154 | 91% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Well written / intriguing, but leaves you hanging - Good story and greatly fleshed-out characters. The many jumps between different Virtual Worlds can become confusing at points. The ending is definitely leading to a sequel, because it pretty much just leaves you hanging with some major unresolved points.”
“No, no, no. This is waaay too wordy for me, just an endless flood of words. I love epic stories but I love a lot of story (of facts) not of words and I never enjoyed this kind of “wide writing” so frequent in old-school…”
Frequently asked
How long is City of Golden Shadow?
It has 784 pages — longer than 95% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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