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Tad Williams

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in San Jose, California, The United States

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Tad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. His genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions worldwide, in twenty-five languages. His considerable output of epic fantasy and science fiction book-series, stories of all kinds, urban fantasy novels, comics, scripts, etc., have strongly influenced a generation of writers: the ‘Otherland’ epic relaunches June 2018 as an MMO on steam.com. Tad is currently immersed in the creation of ‘The Last King of Osten Ard’, planned as a trilogy with two intermediary novels. He, his family and his animals live in the Santa Cruz mountains in a suitably strange and beautiful house. @tadwilliams @mrstad

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Average rating: 4.03 · 423,803 ratings · 18,906 reviews · 349 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 77,316 ratings — published 1988 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3) 4.21 avg rating — 56,973 ratings — published 1993 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 52,659 ratings — published 1990 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 28,708 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3; Part 2) 4.23 avg rating — 24,232 ratings — published 1993 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 16,896 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mountain of Black Glass (Otherland, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 16,468 ratings — published 1999 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea of Silver Light (Otherland, #4) 4.15 avg rating — 14,822 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tailchaser's Song 3.98 avg rating — 13,138 ratings — published 1985 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadowmarch (Shadowmarch, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 12,669 ratings — published 2004 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (3 books)
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Osten Ard Saga (9 books)
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Vzpomínka, Žal a Trn (7 books)
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Otherland (4 books)
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Tad Williams wrote a new blog post Tad on Tour Tad has been on tour in Germany for the past week and a half, so we are just at the halfway point now. Here are some impressions from the tour so far: Read more of this blog post »
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“As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.”
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“He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”
― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

tags: ending, foolish, wisdom, wonder

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“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”
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2015 Series Reads

This will decide our Series Reads for 2015
Depending on the length of the series, we will read the top few choices, so choose carefully!

Promise of Blood-Powder Mage Trilogy by Brian McClellan

28 votes, 17.3%

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

20 votes, 12.3%

Legend-Drenai by David Gemmell

18 votes, 11.1%

The Demon King-Seven Realms by Cinda Williams Chima

17 votes, 10.5%

The Emperor's Knife-Tower and Knife Trilogy byMazarkis Williams

14 votes, 8.6%

Shadowmarch-Shadowmarch by Tad Williams

14 votes, 8.6%

Mordant's Need Stephen R. Donaldson

11 votes, 6.8%

Black Sun Rising-Coldfire by C.S. Friedman

11 votes, 6.8%

The Diamond Throne-Elenium by David Eddings

10 votes, 6.2%

Kushiel's Scion-Imriel's trilogy byJacqueline Carey

6 votes, 3.7%

The Broken Crown-The Sun Sword by Michelle West

6 votes, 3.7%

Thinblade-Sovereign of the 7 Islands by David A. Wells

3 votes, 1.9%

Prospero Lost-Prospero's daughter by L. Jagi Lamplighter

2 votes, 1.2%

Rules of Ascension-Winds of the Forelands by David B. Coe

2 votes, 1.2%

162 total votes

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Thanks for friending. Love the Otherland Series! One of the most imaginative things I've read in a long time. Still have to get to some of your other work! Peace!

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