Otherlands: A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller

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The word "original" is really overworked. But Thomas Halliday has produced a book the like of which I have never come across Jeremy Paxman

Book review – Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape theEarth September 13, 2023 Otherlands is one of those rare books that's both deeply informative and daringly imaginative. It will change the way you look at the history of life, and perhaps also its future Elizabeth Kolbert, author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION Written with gusto and bravado . . . Otherlands is a verbal feast.You feel like you are there on the Mammoth Steppe, some 20,000 years ago, as frigid winds blow off the glacial front.” —Steve Brusatte, Scientific American Halliday’s brilliantly imaginative reconstructions, his deft marshalling of complex science, offersa thrilling experience of deep-time naturefor pop-science buffs.” — Library Journal (starred review)

Del Ray Chiume—Renie's ex-boyfriend, an employee of the UN. Renie goes to him asking for help, unaware of what the help will cost him. I wanted to avoid writing things like, “In 1974, so-and-so did this study”, which is a useful form of science communication, but when I’m trying to evoke a place, it really takes you out of it. So there are almost no references to people at all – and that includes me or the reader. You can read it as if you’re there. It’s purely descriptive of the place. I was inspired by a lot of nature and travel writing, particularly books like John Lewis-Stempel’s Meadowland, Adam Nicolson’s The Seabird’s Cry or Robert Macfarlane’s Underland – books that really give a sense of place. McNary, Dave (19 January 2012). "Warners, Lin off to 'Otherland': Studio lands feature rights to Tad Williams' sci-fi tomes". Variety . Retrieved 22 January 2012. Book review – The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, & Paleontology in the Long NineteenthCentury September 1, 2023

The Angel—a woman who also appears in different incarnations. She seems to have a particular affinity for Paul Jonas, although she also appears to other characters to give them guidance. Cho-Cho—a 10-year-old street boy of Mexican descent who sneaks onto the army base while Christabel is trying to help Mr. Sellars. He becomes involved with Sellars's experiments. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. A book of almost unimaginable riches . . .This is an utterly serious piece of work, meticulously evidence-based and epically cinematic. Or rather,beyond cinematic. The writing is so palpably alive.” — The Sunday Times (U.K.) McConnachie, James. "Otherlands by Thomas Halliday review — an extraordinary history of our almost-alien Earth". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 2022-08-28.

Remarkable... Ingenious... A work of immense imagination [...] rooted firmly in the actual science Stuart Kelly, Scotsman Book review: Otherlands: A World In The Making, by Thomas Halliday". www.scotsman.com. 2022-02-09 . Retrieved 2022-08-28.