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Books : Science Fiction & Fantasy : Authors, A-Z : A : Anthony, Mark
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Following his powerful debut novel, Beyond the Pale, the first book of the Last Rune series, Mark Anthony returns with The Keep of Fire. The stylish cover, highlighting a most monstrous dragon by artist Steve Youll, promises a superior fantasy. Happily the book delivers, with strong story telling and a sharp sense of danger. Being the second volume, Anthony has less scene-setting to do: A terrible contagion is spreading and Travis Wilder, having returned to Colorado, finds himself the focus of two secret organisations. When Travis's friend is caught in the torment of the Burning Plague, Travis again journeys to Eldh, joining Grace Beckett on a perilous quest for the Stone of Fire, in a race against time to prevent an apocalyptic inferno engulfing this world and the next.The Keep of Fire is a little shorter than its predecessor, faster moving, equally engrossing and somewhat darker in tone. It is a serious, complex fantasy, beautifully written, thoughtful, imaginative and thrilling. We discover more about the Dominions, from Shadows Deep to the Summer Sea, learn secrets of the ancient past and are left with a book that is satisfying in its own right, yet which offers tantalising suggestions of what may lie ahead.
A decidedly superior fantasy, Mark Anthony maintains the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara, while bringing a polished contemporary approach to classic High Fantasy. --Gary S. Dalkin
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Following his powerful debut novel, Beyond the Pale, the first book of the Last Rune series, Mark Anthony returns with The Keep of Fire. The stylish cover, highlighting a most monstrous dragon by artist Steve Youll, promises a superior fantasy. Happily the book delivers, with strong story telling and a sharp sense of danger. Being the second volume, Anthony has less scene-setting to do: A terrible contagion is spreading and Travis Wilder, having returned to Colorado, finds himself the focus of two secret organisations. When Travis's friend is caught in the torment of the Burning Plague, Travis again journeys to Eldh, joining Grace Beckett on a perilous quest for the Stone of Fire, in a race against time to prevent an apocalyptic inferno engulfing this world and the next.The Keep of Fire is a little shorter than its predecessor, faster moving, equally engrossing and somewhat darker in tone. It is a serious, complex fantasy, beautifully written, thoughtful, imaginative and thrilling. We discover more about the Dominions, from Shadows Deep to the Summer Sea, learn secrets of the ancient past and are left with a book that is satisfying in its own right, yet which offers tantalising suggestions of what may lie ahead.
A decidedly superior fantasy, Mark Anthony maintains the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara, while bringing a polished contemporary approach to classic High Fantasy. --Gary S. Dalkin
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The Dark Remains, the third volume of Mark Anthony's The Last Rune sequence, shares with its predecessors Beyond the Paleand The Keep of Fire, a strong sense of two worlds and the rules by which they operate. Our own world is one where reason holds sway, but is not the only factor. As Travis and Grace struggle to save the wounded knight Beltan, whom they have brought through a portal from his own world, they have to deal not only with hospital bureaucracies, but also with powerful business interests who are as prone to using magically modified hunting beasts as they are crooked evangelists and sophisticated bugging equipment. Much of what is going on in the magical world of Eldh, from the murder of gods to the jockeying of priests and royal advisors for prestige, is best understood through reason as well: the former goddess Melia proves a competent detective. Anthony effectively balances a large cast of flawed well-intentioned characters and some interesting villains, many of whom know no more than the heroes what ultimately is going on; the set pieces of violent and magical action are involving and exciting as well as psychologically and emotionally plausible.--Roz Kaveney
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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
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The Dark Remains, the third volume of Mark Anthony's The Last Rune sequence, shares with its predecessors Beyond the Paleand The Keep of Fire, a strong sense of two worlds and the rules by which they operate. Our own world is one where reason holds sway, but is not the only factor. As Travis and Grace struggle to save the wounded knight Beltan, whom they have brought through a portal from his own world, they have to deal not only with hospital bureaucracies, but also with powerful business interests who are as prone to using magically modified hunting beasts as they are crooked evangelists and sophisticated bugging equipment. Much of what is going on in the magical world of Eldh, from the murder of gods to the jockeying of priests and royal advisors for prestige, is best understood through reason as well: the former goddess Melia proves a competent detective. Anthony effectively balances a large cast of flawed well-intentioned characters and some interesting villains, many of whom know no more than the heroes what ultimately is going on; the set pieces of violent and magical action are involving and exciting as well as psychologically and emotionally plausible.--Roz Kaveney
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Following his powerful debut novel, Beyond the Pale, the first book of the Last Rune series, Mark Anthony returns with The Keep of Fire. The stylish cover, highlighting a most monstrous dragon by artist Steve Youll, promises a superior fantasy. Happily the book delivers, with strong story telling and a sharp sense of danger. Being the second volume, Anthony has less scene-setting to do: A terrible contagion is spreading and Travis Wilder, having returned to Colorado, finds himself the focus of two secret organisations. When Travis's friend is caught in the torment of the Burning Plague, Travis again journeys to Eldh, joining Grace Beckett on a perilous quest for the Stone of Fire, in a race against time to prevent an apocalyptic inferno engulfing this world and the next.The Keep of Fire is a little shorter than its predecessor, faster moving, equally engrossing and somewhat darker in tone. It is a serious, complex fantasy, beautifully written, thoughtful, imaginative and thrilling. We discover more about the Dominions, from Shadows Deep to the Summer Sea, learn secrets of the ancient past and are left with a book that is satisfying in its own right, yet which offers tantalising suggestions of what may lie ahead.
A decidedly superior fantasy, Mark Anthony maintains the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara, while bringing a polished contemporary approach to classic High Fantasy. --Gary S. Dalkin
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The Dark Remains, the third volume of Mark Anthony's The Last Rune sequence, shares with its predecessors Beyond the Paleand The Keep of Fire, a strong sense of two worlds and the rules by which they operate. Our own world is one where reason holds sway, but is not the only factor. As Travis and Grace struggle to save the wounded knight Beltan, whom they have brought through a portal from his own world, they have to deal not only with hospital bureaucracies, but also with powerful business interests who are as prone to using magically modified hunting beasts as they are crooked evangelists and sophisticated bugging equipment. Much of what is going on in the magical world of Eldh, from the murder of gods to the jockeying of priests and royal advisors for prestige, is best understood through reason as well: the former goddess Melia proves a competent detective. Anthony effectively balances a large cast of flawed well-intentioned characters and some interesting villains, many of whom know no more than the heroes what ultimately is going on; the set pieces of violent and magical action are involving and exciting as well as psychologically and emotionally plausible.--Roz Kaveney