Tad Williams, real name - Robert Paul Williams, born March 14, 1957 - American science fiction writer, best known for the cycles: Otherland (Foreign Land) - a hybrid of epic fantasy, NF and technotriller; Shadowmarch (March of the Shadows), Memory, Sorrow and Thorn (Order of the Manuscript) and the sequel to The Last King of Osten Ard - epic fantasy; Bobby Dollar - urban fantasy; Ordinary Farm Adventures - fantasy for children..