The World House
Combining the puzzle box of Hellraiser with the explorartion of Tad Williams' Otherland series, this is the perfect blend of fantasy and adventure, an exceptional modern fantasy debut.THERE IS A BOX. INSIDE THAT BOX IS A DOOR. AND BEYOND THAT DOOR IS A WHOLE WORLD. In some rooms, forests grow....
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Combining the puzzle box of Hellraiser with the explorartion of Tad Williams' Otherland series, this is the perfect blend of fantasy and adventure, an exceptional modern fantasy debut.THERE IS A BOX. INSIDE THAT BOX IS A DOOR. AND BEYOND THAT DOOR IS A WHOLE WORLD. In some rooms, forests grow. In others, animals and objects come to life. Elsewhere, secrets and treasures wait for the brave and foolhardy.And at the very top of the house, a prisoner sits behind a locked door waiting for a key to turn. The day that happens, the world will end...File under: Modern Fantasy [Worlds within Worlds | Prison Break | Exploring the Unknown | Dark Powers]
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780857660381 (0857660381)
Publish date: February 25th 2011
Publisher: Angry Robot
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Series: The World House (#1)
Word Problem: If Alice has hijacked Miss Frizzle’s magic school bus and is going 60 clicks per decasecond when she runs through the phantom tollbooth, where will she end up?Although none of the aforementioned characters (or any reference thereto) show up in this raucous ride with Guy Adams, the answ...
There were parts of this that I found it hard to fully immerse myself in because I was distracted by certain similarities to an RPG I play in, but that's not really the fault of the book. When it started to all come together and I realised what was happening, I was absolutely transported. Creative a...
This review is just me giving myself permission to stop pretending I'm reading this. It's not a bad book, so far. The writing is snappy, especially at the very beginning, with some nail-biting chthulu-style hijinks and pulp weirdness. A box! Opens a door! To a house! That is a holodeck of space! and...
There's something sinister about a structure that's bigger on the inside than it has any right to be, whether it's [b:House of Leaves|24800|House of Leaves|Mark Z. Danielewski|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CV88E7WQL._SL75_.jpg|856555] or the TARDIS or Snoopy's dog house (if he can fit a gr...
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