Mark Anthony (writer)
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Mark Anthony is an American author who lives and writes in Colorado.
Career
[edit]Anthony wrote a number of novels based on Dungeons & Dragons published worlds, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Ravenloft.[1] His first such novel was Crypt of the Shadowking in The Harpers series, and he has written several short stories as well.
Anthony was commissioned by TSR to write a novel about Drizzt Do'Urden called The Shores of Dusk by the time Wizards of the Coast had purchased TSR; however, Wizards declined to publish Anthony's completed novel in favor of bringing back R. A. Salvatore to write about Drizzt, starting with The Silent Blade (1998).[2]
Anthony is best known for The Last Rune series, which he developed to explore the idea that reason and wonder need not exist in conflict.[3] Recently[when?] he has written a trilogy under the pseudonym Galen Beckett, beginning with a novel The Magicians and Mrs. Quent, whose blurb, similarly to The Last Rune, claims that the book was written to given an answer to the question "what if there was a fantastical cause underlying the social constraints and limited choices confronting a heroine in a novel by Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte?".[4]
Partial bibliography
[edit]The Last Rune series
[edit]- Beyond the Pale (1998)
- The Keep of Fire (1999)
- The Dark Remains (2001)
- Blood of Mystery (2002)
- The Gates of Winter (2003)
- The First Stone (2004)
The Magicians and Mrs. Quent series
[edit]- The Magicians And Mrs. Quent (2008) (as Galen Beckett)
- The House on Durrow Street (2010) (as Galen Beckett)
- The Master of Heathcrest Hall (2012) (as Galen Beckett)
Forgotten Realms novels
[edit]- Crypt of the Shadowking (1993)
- Curse of the Shadowmage (1995)
- Escape from Undermountain (1996)
Dragonlance novels
[edit]- Kindred Spirits (with Ellen Porath) (1991)
Ravenloft novels
[edit]- Tower of Doom (1994)
References
[edit]- ^ Buker, Derek M. (2002). The science fiction and fantasy readers' advisory: the librarian's guide to cyborgs, aliens, and sorcerers. ALA Editions. pp. 127–128. ISBN 0-8389-0831-4.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 283. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ Mark Anthony
- ^ SFSite
External links
[edit]- Mark Anthony's official website
- Interview at SFFWorld.com
- Mark Anthony at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Galen Beckett's official website
- "Mark Anthony :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on January 3, 2011.
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