Talk:Otherland

message: I'm working on a more thorough version of this article on my scratchpad, see User:Hooloovoo/Otherland for the work in progress. --Hooloovoo 23:45, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temp in-progess version 

message: But isn't Sam Fredericks' first name Salome?  Not Samantha?  I don't have the books on me to check, so I won't edit the article until I'm certain. --Talyma 02:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought it was Sam, for what it is worth. It's been a while for me, too. --Maru (talk) 17:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  It has been a while since I've read Otherland 

message: At my local library, they seemingly have a series of 5 books, titled Otherland 1-5. "Universe on the Side", "The Other Land", "The City of Golden Shadows", "The River of Blue Fire" and "False Gods". All at around 200 pages. However, from what I read on other sites, the Otherland 1-4 detailed here are each 1000+ pages. It would seem these 5 books are just "The City of Golden Shadows", ie Otherland 1, split up into 5 volumes.
So, am I correct in assuming that these 5 books are really just the first part of the Otherland quartology? And if so, how come book 4 in this quintology shares name with book 2 in the quartology? Confusing, no?
Source: https://www.genvej.gentofte.bibnet.dk/sites/XBS/pub/search.html# (Search for "Otherland") -85.24.87.178 (talk) 03:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, you must have found a very annoying hole in a system....The 3 otherland books I've so far read are around 500-700pages, and "Blue Fire" is one book.....and I've never heard of "False Gods"......who knows?.......(Beau)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arothus (talk • contribs) 22:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this? 

message: Is it correct to call her a lesbian? She may be bisexual. In any event it seems non-salient. Rich Farmbrough, 09:38, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Caliope

message: Would it be notable that in 2005, Hessischer Rundfunk has turned all four Otherland books into a German audio play, utilizing the official German translation published by Klett-Cotta and Heyne-Verlag? It's also Guiness Book-worthy by being the longest audio play in radio history at a complete running time of 24 hours, involving 250 individual voice actors. German Wikipedia already has a separate article for the audio play, and here's a link to the 25 CD box set on Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/Otherland-Iiv-Various/dp/B000S5L7OU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1273867788&sr=1-2-spell --79.193.59.142 (talk) 20:13, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems notable to me, for one.  (fwiw)  rags (talk) 07:38, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audio play 

message: just heard a fascinating interview with Williams in which he admits to Otherland having been inspired by, of all things, a childhood visit to Disneyland.
when i say 'i heard', i mean 'i was in the room when he was being interviewed at a convention'. it's gonna be online sometime soon. 66.131.30.42 (talk) 19:49, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: dicecast dot blogspot is where it'll be. Soonish. 66.131.30.42 (talk) 00:21, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspiration 

message: I am not completely sure, but shouldn't the section about characters inside Otherland contain a reference to Nemesis as well? I would also suggest to include references to the Wicked Tribe, the Stone Girl and members of the Circle as the organization opposing the Grail brotherhood. EugealCrayfish (talk) 17:29, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nemesis 

message: I'm from Germany, so please don't mind my bad English.
The Xhosa Language is mentioned twice when talking about !Xabbu's name.
"(note: the ! in !Xabbu is representative of one of the postalveolar clicks from the Xhosa language)"
The first mention is acceptable, but the citation above is really humiliating! Xhosa is a Bantu Language, that means a language of black Africans, while !Xabbu is a San (usually called Bushmen), they are a different race than black Africans (having light skin) and the ancient conflict between Bushmen and black Africans is one of the main topics of the storyline Renie/!Xabbu. And it should be well-known, that the click sounds originally came from these San-languages, spreading later to some Bantu-languages like Xhosa. And these language families are not related. --84.58.51.115 (talk) 02:28, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cease mentioning the Xhosa Language! 

message: The book cover shown is "Otherland" (the original Hardcover title for City of Golden Shadow) yet the mouse hover text) 18:00, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book cover in article 

message: The plot is nonsensical, the characters are not just not doing anything, but even their every action is revealed to be doomed from the start.
The whole thing just constantly flushes down ideas, breakes it own rules, pulls things out of nothing, and generally relies on deus ex machinas.
Do not fall for the first book, this series is the worst thing in existence. 2A02:AB88:5181:5300:6191:A9D2:6C32:36CD (talk) 14:12, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is the worst book I've ever read 

message: I'd like to remove the following part from the introduction 
→"Orlando Gardiner, one of the main characters in the books, spent most of his teenage years in this world's equivalent to MMORPGs based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction. The overall series's events also bear a strong resemblance to The Lord of the Rings."
This is describing a character, and is better left to the characters section of the article, rather than calling out one of the multiple main characters in the series. Corhen (talk) 20:44, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaning up the introduction paragraphs 

message: Is Josh Strife Hayes' play through of the mmo (Otherland - The complete playthrough) noteworthy?--174.99.238.22 (talk) 02:27, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Noteworthy?