The brilliant novel of an ordinary person in a marvellous world.

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Product Description

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…

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1883053 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

About the Author
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.

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Customer Reviews

Fantasy epic on a miniature scale
Elsewhere is unusually short for a modern fantasy novel, but that does it no harm at all - just as it didn't hurt Jack Vance or Michael Moorcock's early work. After a pretty standard beginning in our world, Jake, the main character, falls into another universe. At first it seems like a remote mountain idyll, but Jake is soon disabused, finding he is in a land of great danger. I really enjoyed this novel - especially for its expansive descriptions of glorious landscapes, its manipulation of the reader's preconceptions, and most of all, its conciseness, which lets it be enjoyed without having to make a lifetime commitment!