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Elsewhere by Steven Gilligan

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Smooth orange light leaked from the lantern overhead cast a soft honeyed dawn across the two seated figures. It was very late, and also very early in the morning. Delumar looked gravely at the scattered stones on the old wooden table and slowly raised his eyebrows.

“The signs are good,” he said and tugged thoughtfully at his plaited grey beard.

“How good?” said Marila.

“Good enough for me, the time will be soon. The Mark-Bearer is coming this time, I am sure of it.”

Jake leads an uninteresting life in an uninspiring world. He expects himself to be elsewhere until one Saturday afternoon he suddenly is. Follow Jake’s journey as he travels to a world beyond his imagination and finds that his destiny awaits him in the hub of an unlikely prophesy. As the reluctant and disbelieving Mark-Bearer, Jake must prove his worth to the people of Myristyla and unlock the secrets that will lead him to the defeat of an evil presence that was long thought dormant. But is that all there is to it? Only the Mark-Bearer can unearth the truth…

Although Steven Gilligan wrote extensively for New Words in the 1990s, Elsewhere, a fantasy, is his first published novel, and Alpha.one, a grim science fiction adventure, will be his second. He has spent most of his years dabbling with everything from mythology to mathematics and defines his life goal as a quest for immortality and the secrets of time travel.

This is an important novel for Silver Age Books, marking as it does the point at which we became serious contenders, moving (for a little while, at least) from occasional one-off novels to publishing a wide range of exciting fiction.

Paperback, 168pp

Publication: 12 April 2002

ISBN 0 9537650 2 4

Price: £6.99

Read a sample – “Encounter with the Myreli”

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