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Plot Summary of City of Golden Shadow
"Renie Sulaweio's teen brother enter in a coma after visiting a site on the Net. She decides to investigate, unraveling the mystery of a superadvanced Virtual reality World, Otherland. Many children fell in a coma in the net, she discovers, and those illness are somehow connected whit Otherland, created by a sinister organization of very richand powerful men called The Grail Brotherhood. "
ANGELO VENTURA, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of City of Golden Shadow
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%




Tone of book - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Robots, Computers, VR Yes
Robot, PC, VR Plotlets: - virtual reality
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - teacher
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - mastermind
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - obsessed - deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - physically sick

Setting
Terrain - Domed/Underground City
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a significant amount of technical jargon
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only
How much dialogue? - significantly more descript than dialog
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