![]() ![]() A pilot was shot featuring several people who would go on to become Bay Area acting alumni, including Greg Proops, Mike McShane, Joan Mankin, Marga Gomez and several members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. In addition, he created "Valley Vision," a TV series concept, a show about a local TV station. Jack Steckel's 21st Century Vaudeville", which was broadcast on San Francisco Bay Area local TV in 19. He and his colleague Andrew Harris created a company, Telemorphix, in order to produce it. Williams also worked for Apple, developing an interest in interactive multi-media. īefore becoming a full time fiction author Williams held many jobs including delivering newspapers, food service, DJ and station music director for college radio station KFJC, shoe sales, branch manager of a financial institution, writing for the TheatreWorks company and drawing military manuals. The semi-autobiographical character Pogo Cashman, who appears in some of his stories, is a reference to the nickname. His mother gave him the nickname "Tad" after the young characters in Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo. His family was close, and he and his brothers were always encouraged in their creativity. He attended Palo Alto Senior High School. He grew up in Palo Alto, the town that grew up around Stanford University. Robert Paul "Tad" Williams was born in San Jose, California on March 14, 1957. The first two books in the series are The Dragons of Ordinary Farm and The Secrets of Ordinary Farm. ![]() Williams is collaborating on a series of young-adult books with his wife, Deborah Beale, called The Ordinary Farm Adventures. Other comic work includes Mirrorworld: Rain and The Helmet of Fate: Ibis the Invincible #1 (DC). He also wrote Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis issue #50 to #57. Williams's work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called The Next. Cumulatively, over 17 million copies of Williams's works have been sold. Most recently, Williams published The Bobby Dollar series. He is the author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, and Shadowmarch series as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song and The War of the Flowers. Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. 10)įorecast: Williams should enjoy another run up the genre bestseller lists with this strong concluding volume.Storyteller, novelist, short story writer, comics writer and essayist ![]() The Otherland books are a major accomplishment. Master villains: one for whom we may begrudge some respect for the other, no mercy. ![]() Are they real or "sims" (simulations)? Generously, the author supplies two Individuals may live in both worlds, despite Otherland being only made of "light and numbers." Characters dead in real life can still be alive in the virtual world, as in the poignant plight of a young woman, whose dress and manners are 18th century, who's in love with a young man snatched, apparently, from the trenches of WWI. Those scenes grounded in a recognizable world are the most compelling. At nearly 700 pages this is a mighty mouthful to swallow, but a well-crafted if convoluted plot sustains interest through the lengthy climax, which explains the inexplicable. An enormous cast of courageous humans confronts monstrous insects, unimaginable dangers and all the appurtenances of fantastic adventure. Otherland, a complete universe co-existent with the real world, incorporates elements of the Arabian Nights, the Alice and Oz books, the Neanderthal Age, the Trojan War, rewritten Roman history (Hannibal returns three centuries after his death to crush Rome, without elephants), as well as numerous nursery rhymes and fables. This stunning finale to the gigantic Otherland tetralogy ( City of Golden Shadow, etc.), a brilliant fusion of quest fantasy and technological SF, is sure to please Williams's many fans. ![]()
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