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Shades of Otherland's Orlando Gardiner. In the 1995 novel by Tad Williams, Gardiner is afflicted with a progressive genetic disorder which precludes his having
by gavmor 2y ago
Shades of Otherland's Orlando Gardiner. In the 1995 novel by Tad Williams, Gardiner is afflicted with a progressive genetic disorder which precludes his having much of a life offline--at least, he finds it easier to make friends online--and spends his days playing Middle Country (WoW was released 3 years after the last volume of Wiliams' quartet was published) where he is a strapping swashbuckler.
I think it's phenomenal that Mats was able to touch so many lives so deeply.
- KennyBlanken 2y agoScalzi's Lock In explores what might develop when you have an entire segment of the population that become complete paraplegics ("Hadens") from a pandemic. Real life services, virtual worlds, telepresence robots, and people who get brain mods to be able to serve as hosts for Hadens that want a real physical experience.