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24587: Re: [MUD-Dev] Otherland

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From: Dan Homerick <djhomerick@ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:06:32 -0700
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Richard A. Bartle wrote:

> One of the major recent works of SF/Fantasy concerning Virtual
> Worlds is Tad Williams' "Otherland" series. If you haven't read
> it, you should (but set aside a couple of weeks - it's around
> 5,000 pages long in total).  It's well-researched, believable, and
> practically guaranteed to contain at least two characters you'll
> recognise from your own games (although these will be different
> from game to game).  The very first line of the very first volume
> of the series is:
 
>   "It started in mud, as many things do." 

Of note is that Tad Williams was working as a creative consultant
for a now-cancelled MMORPG titled "Dark Zion" (Wombat Games). He's
certainly not an outsider to the field of online worlds.

 - Dan Homerick


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