Just rambling this morning about a lot of things. First, everyone in my house is exhausted from two nights (and two to go) of the Burke Pres. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," production, which was really amazing and fabulous. What talented kids.
Today it is supposed to be almost 70 degrees, and I am planning on planting a bunch of tulip and daffodil and hyacinth bulbs. Tra la la
My parents left for Mexico today and have given us notes explaining what to do with their things in the event they are kidnapped and murdered. It doesn't sound like the most restful trips I would have planned. They are going to Mexico City and not a resort area. I am sure they'll be fine, though. They are intrepid travellers and always have terrific adventures.
On the book front, I've been stalled in my reading on this massive series by Tad Williams called Otherland, four books that run fairly seamlessly together. This is not the genre I generally go for, pure science fiction, but I've been hooked and really need to find out what happens to this rambling cast of characters. Essentially this is a future not so different from our own, but everything is virtual reality and net hookup through access jacks implanted into the neck. Pretty freaky, but certainly not unknown in the sf genre. But the Otherland network is unique, a playground for the ultra rich, where they have created vr networks, Ancient Greece-the battle of Troy, specifically, Alice in Wonderland come to life, ancient Venice, ancient Egypt, complete with living gods such as Horus and Bast, a land where you are as small as an ant and the ants are as big as horses, and on and on. Wandering through these worlds is a group of diverse individuals, all brought to the Otherland network by a mysterious man, Sellars, who wants to help them bring down the Grail Brotherhood, who has built the Otherland Network as a means for their own immortality, and on the backs of the earth's children, whose minds are being stolen as the network's energy source.
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Who is the protagonist in this book? What's the driving force behind the plot? I'm a bigger fan of sci fi, but mostly the older, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, etc. type.
?Como estaban sus padres? :)
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