Otherland

A four-volume odyssey through a privately owned virtual multiverse built by the world's richest men for a purpose worth dying — and killing — to hide.

In the Guide

City of Golden Shadow

1996 · book 1

The genre's great pre-broadband metaverse epic — VR worldbuilding at a scale not attempted again until the streaming era, and a visible influence on everything from the Matrix sequels' discourse to Ready Player One's premise (done with far more ambition here).