Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780671021917
ISBN: 0671021915
Label: Earthlight
Manufacturer: Earthlight
Number Of Pages: 527
Publication Date: November 01, 1999
Publisher: Earthlight
Studio: Earthlight

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
With Beyond The Pale Mark Anthony has made one of the most striking and accomplished fantasy debuts in recent years. This is a big and ambitious novel, and yet only the first part of an even bigger and more ambitious series. Reality is crumbling in Castle City and the dead walk in Denver, while from the very first page, when "Brother Cy's Apocalyptic Travelling Salvation Show" blows into town late one fall night, Anthony tips his hand that we are in the classic American shadowlands of Ray Bradbury's The October Country. Travis Wilder, a bar owner, and Grace Beckett, a doctor and Wilder's friend, find themselves amid increasingly bizarre and fantastical events, crossing over to the parallel reality of Eldh, a world of magic and deadly conflict. Here they will become involved with The Council of Kings, journey to The Rune Gate...and enter a web of conspiracy and dark magic at the heart of the ancient fight between the forces of good and nightmarish evil.

With his engaging and compulsively readable style, Mark Anthony is comparable to Stephen King, while his dark and complex parallel world will appeal to readers of Stephen Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever and Clive Barker's Imajica. This is a gripping, intense and highly imaginative first novel with a real sense of danger about the adventure, well-drawn characters to care about, and more than one ingenious twist in the skilfully plotted tale. --Gary S. Dalkin




Rating: - Fantastic start to a new series.
This was bought as a gift for me and what a prezzie it turned out to be. This first book in the 'Last Rune' series starts in a backwater town in Colarado where Travis Wilder runs a bar. Everything in his life is humdrum and normal but that is about to change with the arrival of a strange travelling show, headed by Brother Cy. At the same time there is a parallel story about a young doctor, Grace Beckett who feels there is something lacking in her life. She is about to find out what.
Mark Anthony ... Read More

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Rating: - Enthralling swords & sorcery novel
Was unsure at first if I would enjoy this book, the style was highly imaginative and even florid in its descriptions. However, I suddenly found myself spellbound by the interweaving of the 2 storylines following Travis and Grace on Eldh.

The magic is imaginative - I like the Wierding and the Runespeakers and the characters engaging. Enough twists and turns to satisfy the sleuth in me.

I realised he'd got me good - when I checked the bedside clock and found it was gone midnight ... ... Read More

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Rating: - Beyond The Pale - brilliant!
The series so far is fantastic and I can't wait for the fourth book to be published! This is exciting, gripping and so well thought out. It combines the best features of fantasy writing, without fault. A must read for anyone who enjoys David Eddings, Philip Pullman, Anne McCaffrey, Terry Goodkind, Piers Anthony, or anyone similar.

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Rating: - Exciting Trip To Another World
Over all a well written book that captures the imagination from the start. It provides an interesting mix of characters that combines life in modern Colorado to life in a fantasy medieval world. Although not the most original storyline a good read none the less.

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