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Otherland #1

City of Golden Shadow

Name: City of Golden Shadow
Rating: 3.93 (28710 reviews)
Author: Tad Williams

Tad Williams December 5, 1996

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Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead.

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