STEPHEN MARLOWE

Se abre la novela con una cita: ¿Acaso no es todo lo que vemos o parecemos sólo un sueño dentro de un sueño?. Terminada la lectura y pasada su última página, esta frase adquiere todo su significado. EL FARO DE LA ULTIMA ORILLA es un texto de una fantasia evocadora; realidad y sueño se confunden, ¿no es acaso lo mismo vivir una realidad que creer que se esta viviendo una realidad? Los ultimos desgraciados dias de vida del literato Edgar Allan Poe, secuestrado literalmente por agentes de cierto partido politico; agonizante poco despues sobre una cama en el Hospital de Baltimore, es la excusa perfecta que da pie a la narracion. Poe se retrotrae y cobija en los recuerdos de su pasada existencia, alumbrando sus vivencias en compañia de amigos, enemigos, amantes y esposa; confundiendo en su lecho de moribundo las verdaderas personas de su vida con los personajes de su vida literaria. Ambas vidas jamas estuvieron del todo separadas. Llegados a un punto, es dificil discernir el limite entre lo sucedido realmente y lo que Poe ha creido en verdad experimentar. Sus conversaciones con C. Auguste Dupin, celebre detective diletante creado por el mismo, son muy reveladoras a este respecto, asi como sus viajes a Paris (en donde el autor jamas estuvo), o a la idealizada isla de Panchatan, escenario de unas surrealistas aventuras en las que el mismo toma a la vez el papel de creador y protagonista. Tal es el deseo de Stephen Marlowe de incidir en su idea, de mostrarnos este maremagnum de realidad distorsionada, que en ocasiones la lectura se hace un poco confusa; es necesario estar atento a cada giro de la trama, y a cada desplazamiento de los personajes dentro de ella. Curiosamente, aunque la novela esta abundantemente poblada de personajes, tanto reales como imaginarios, hay uno que se convierte en protagonista casi absoluto, y ese es Edgar Allan Poe. Todo gira en torno a su figura, como en torno a un sol ya moribundo; el es el motor y el alma de la historia. Ya sea en su identidad de Phidias Peacock o en la de Thomas W. Fredericks (lo que puede dar una idea de lo esquizofrenico de la

This is the story of my death and life, in which fiction and that lesser truth, history, from time to time form a seamless whole. Speaking is the hero of Stephen Marlowes brilliant new novel. He is Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: son of a barber-surgeon (always on the run from the bill collector), grandson of a converso(a Jew who chose Christianity over the flames of the Spanish Inquisition), adorer of his own sister (who may not have been his sister after all), brother of one of the most famous spies in recorded history (though the records have mysteriously vanished), prisoner in an Algerian dungeon (following capture by Barbary Pirates), friend to a Faustian eunuch astrologer named Cide Hamete Benegeli (whose missing private parts are miraculously regenerating), and, of course, creator of the most celebrated of all fictional historical novels--The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

No one comes back from the Nowhere Journey, whatever they say about some rotation. When Kit Temples drafted, he figures hes leaving his girl, his life, behind forever. But his fellow-draftee, the enigmatic Arkalion, seems to know a lot more than what hes letting on. When Kit follows Arkalion to the end of space and time, he finds out whats really going on in this Nowhere and takes on a trial that will decide the fate of Earth itself!

One of the most unforgettable characters from the golden era of science fiction, Johnny Mayhem is a shapeshifter who can assume the guise of any person. In the pulse-pounding short story A Place in the Sun, Mayhem is ordered to save a spacecraft that is on a direct collision course with the Sun. Will he be able to pull off this Herculean task before its too late?Stephen Marlowe (August 7, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, died February 22, 2008 (aged 79), in Williamsburg, Virginia) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created in the 1955 novel The Second Longest Night. Lesser also wrote under the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C.H. Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder and Ellery Queen.Lesser attended the College of William & Mary, earning his degree in philosophy, marrying Leigh Lang shortly after graduating. The couple divorced in 1962. He was drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War.He was awarded the French Prix Gutenberg du Livre in 1988 for The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus, and in 1997 he was awarded the "Life Achievement Award" by the Private Eye Writers of America. He also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America. He lived with his second wife Ann in Williamsburg, Virginia.

One of the most unforgettable characters from the golden era of science fiction, Johnny Mayhem is a shapeshifter who can assume the guise of any person. In the pulse-pounding short story "A Place in the Sun," Mayhem is ordered to save a spacecraft that is on a direct collision course with the Sun. Will he be able to pull off this Herculean task before its too late?