{"id":1617,"date":"2010-12-03T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2013-12-27T08:52:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:52:49","slug":"out-of-the-otherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Otherland And So The Journey Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"usosl-hc_20071209065239\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/usosl-hc_20071209065239.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"761\" \/>It has indeed been a long journey. I started this science-fiction series a few (maybe three?) years ago, and today, I finally touched the light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The end of the story was a touching and satisfactory one. At the very last page, I tried to recall the various events that occurred in the previous volumes, but realised that I can&#8217;t anymore. I am utterly bemused by the ability of the writer to churn out such a complicated plot in order to reach a\u00a0commonplace ending. It certainly takes one with an eye for minute details to be able to craft an absolutely fictitious fiction like this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I pondered on the immense possibilities that an Otherland could bring for us. Should we continue life after death in such a way? Would it render the word &#8216;life&#8217; meaningless then, because life, as it means in the Otherland, no longer depends on interaction within a reality but a mere touch of one&#8217;s imagination? I think Tad Williams has effectively unveiled the unforeseeable scope of technology in the future of mankind. I am not quite sure if this was his intention, but it definitely provokes an unknown fear in us at the same time it triggers hope. I do hope that eventually, there will be more of the latter. In any case, I would prefer to stick to the conservative side of life &#8211; to see it as an elusive entity so that I can achieve more within my own ability, untouched by virtual capability &#8211; whatever that is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For anyone interested, the whole series of the Otherland books can be found <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Otherland: Volumes 1-3\" href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=1172\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:40px;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=1617\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"verdana\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has indeed been a long journey. I started this science-fiction series a few (maybe three?) years ago, and today, I finally touched the light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-otherland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}