Title: SHADES OF RIM!
Product review: The plot of this story sounds suspiciously like it's been lifted from an earlier novel, Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality (HarperPrism, '94) by Alexander Besher. In Williams' 1999 tome, the "Grail Brotherhood" is responsible for a sinister malady that causes hundreds of children who go online to fall into a coma. In Besher's Rim, which was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in '94, a mysterious group named the "Satori Corporation" is responsible for a sinister malady that causes hundreds of children who go online to fall into a coma. Williams' book features Egyptian Book of the Dead-type gods running around, Besher's book wraps its theme around the Tibetan gods from the Tibetan Book of Dead. Other similarities abound, including descriptions of the children in their hospital wards etc. Too close for comfort, as far as I'm concerned. Check it out--and decide for yourselves, readers!
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