Otherworld

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Adult Written by James M. Touching and interesting book that captured even my attention!!! My child who is not an avid reader read this book and was very happy with the content. I thought it would be too gruesome and inappropriate for my child but act Adult Written by Sarah F. From the first page to the very last I was on my toes the entire book. I almost felt like I was part of the story.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Otherworld disambiguation. Alfheim , Asgard , Vanaheim , and Norse cosmology. Vyraj and Nav Slavic folklore. Essays in Honour of J. Dreaming, Vol 15 2 , Jun , Retrieved 23 August Retrieved from " https: It is thus unknown whether Thel is an alternate universe version of Earth, or another planet entirely. Travel between Zones is so strictly regulated to the point that no one can travel outside their home zone province save for the Zone troopers , and all maps have been banned by the state.

Thus, the inhabitants of each zone know absolutely nothing about life in other areas.

The family could not know about the travel ban, and approached a soldier the first Thel native they met in all innocence, seeking help, while the soldier - Kommander Nuveen Kroll, reputed to be the worst, and most ill-tempered of all Zone Troopers - viewed them as lawbreakers and treated them as such. When Hal insists they need help, Kroll attempts to arrest them and gets rough with Smith, the youngest of the Sterling sons.

The Sterlings resist and, in the struggle, Kroll's sidearm weapon goes off, the blast rendering him unconscious. The Sterlings take his access crystal, which is possessed only by Zone Trooper officers, and which gives them security access to state-controlled equipment and information data banks his vehicle, and his sidearm and drive away. For the rest of the series, Kroll is resolute in his attempts to recover his crystal, capture the Sterlings whom, in a report to his superior, he would later regard as a band of "armed terrorists" and subject them to severe punishment.

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The Sterling family's first night in Thel was spent in a province called Sarlax. This province is an ages old mining colony where sophisticated androids labored at mining a radioactive mineral named "Sarlax". The mineral is just radioactive enough to make humans sick which necessitates the android labor force. The androids are sophisticated enough to have created a culture of their own and are related to the once ancient robots that ruled Thel in the past.

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It is here that a friendly android couple gives the Sterlings a historical book called "The Book of Imar" which chronicles the history of not just the planet but the androids and the culture of Thel. The Church of Artificial Intelligence is the official state religion of Thel, and no conflicting ideologies are permitted.

Very few actual details about this religion are known, except that it appears to be centered on the worship of robots, computers and cybernetic technology adherents are, in one episode, said to use "Worship Modules" which are electronic in nature. There is mention in the first episode of a race of humans that created primitive robots and then died out. Eventually the robots became bored and evolved themselves through continued upgrades and modifications until they created what is known as a plasmoid being: These plasmoids were so in love with their creators that they even built in lifespans into their being so that they would be able to emulate death much like their onetime human masters.

Eventually they began the process of recreating humans by a process that is not explained but once again Thel was populated by a majority of human lifeforms. A series of Egyptian-like stone markers Obelisks , each with one eye, are supposed to mark the way to Imar, a city with beautiful buildings and a suspension bridge the city shown in the opening credits, apparently intended to be Imar, is a photographic negative of New York City. Each episode had the family dealing with the bizarre ways of life in each "Zone," and at the end of the episode, fleeing one Zone for another, pursued by Commander Kroll Jonathan Banks and his Zone Troopers.

Kroll is intent on revenge, given that the Sterlings stole his high security access crystal, acquired during their disastrous encounter in the first episode. Though Thel had many similarities to Earth of the s, there was quite a bit of advanced technology displayed throughout the series.