Antiquitas Lost
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| Author | Robert Louis Smith |
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| Cover artist | Geof Isherwood |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Antiquitas Lost |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Medlock Publishing |
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Publication date
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2011 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 624 p. (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | (paperback edition) |
| LC Class | 2011910604 |
Antiquitas Lost: The Last of the Shamalans is the debut novel of American author Robert Louis Smith. It is a fantasy novel that chronicles the adventures of an American teenage boy after he stumbles through a magical doorway in his grandfather's basement, and into a war-torn fantasy world called Pangrelor. The main story arc involves the protagonist's gradual discovery of his unknown relation to Pangrelor, and his unlikely quest to help save its greatest civilization, which is centered on the mountaintop city of Harwelden. Several times during the story, the protagonist is told that success in saving this fabled city of Harwelden may help to save his own dying mother, who remains isolated from him and terminally ill in New Orleans.
Antiquitas Lost has many high quality illustrations, which is unusual for this genre.
Antiquitas Lost tells the story of a boy named Elliott, a lonesome kid with deformities on his hands and feet, who is uprooted from his home after his mother falls gravely ill. When they move to New Orleans so his grandfather can help care for her, Elliott learns that the old man’s eighteenth century mansion hides an ancient secret. While checking out some eerie paintings and strange relics in the basement, Elliott strays through an ancient doorway into a tumultuous parallel world, full of bizarre creatures and warring races. He has stumbled into Pangrelor, the most ancient of all worlds and “mother to all the stars in the sky.” As he learns to navigate his new surroundings, he discovers wondrous abilities he never dreamed he possessed, and an abiding connection to the primitive, alien world that will forever change him. But he must proceed carefully. For he soon learns that his actions in the ancient world will impact the upcoming battle for Harwelden, Pangrelor’s greatest civilization, and will also resonate all the way back to New Orleans, perhaps deciding whether his own mother lives or dies.
Antiquitas Lost had more than 70 high quality illustrations, which were drawn and inked by Marvel Comics artist Geof Isherwood, who now spends most of his time working in the film industry. Prior to working on Antiquitas Lost, Isherwoods’s credits include longtime illustrations of Marvel Comics including Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Silver Surfer, Conan the Barbarian, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Namor, The Avengers, and others. Credits in the film industry include concept/production illustrations for Richard Donner (Director of The Omen, Superman, & Lethal Weapon), Bryan Singer (Director of The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2), and Darren Aronofsky (Director of The Fountain, The Wrestler), among others. In 1997, Isherwood also introduced his own comic book title, Lincoln-16, which garnered praise for its artwork from Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee.
Antiquitas Lost was edited by freelance editor Michael Carr, whose editing credits include: Michael Moorcock’s White Wolf’s Son, Brad Meltzer’s The Zero Game (NY Times No. 3 bestseller), Patricia Smiley’s Cover Your Eyes (LA Times bestseller), Bernard Goldberg’s Arrogance (NY Times bestseller), Al Sharpton’s Al on America, CNN’s Lou Dobbs’ Exporting America, and Tucker Carlson’s Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites. Carr has edited for several major publishing houses, including Time Warner Books, Penguin Putnam, Holcomb Hathaway, and Globo Libros. In January 2011, after completing his work on the manuscript for Antiquitas Lost, Carr edited and translated into English the book, Buried Alive: The True Story of the Chilean Mining Disaster and the Extraordinary Rescue at Camp Hope, by Chilean miner Manuel Pino Toro.
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