[MUD-Dev] Otherland

[shren]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Richard A. Bartle wrote:
> On 12 August 2002, Shren wrote:

>> Don't forget, however, that the virtual worlds of the Otherland
>> series literally eat the souls of children.
 
> No, they don't. Those "children" in the last volume are emergent
> AIs (yeah, books about virtual worlds ALWAYS have emergent
> AIs). The children whose souls were apparently being eaten
> (ie. the ones in comas) were there as a result of some major
> backlash from the telepath "operating system".
 
> I think it was intended to be a surprise ending, but after 5,000
> pages I was more interested in ANY ending, surprise or not!

Yes, and if you dropped the series at any point before then, you
leave thinking that VR ate the children.

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We import it from everywhere.


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