Martin R. Nelson
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative
Pondering history, myth, and fantasy from an early age, Martin grew up in Southern Oregon wondering what lay outside the sleepy Pacific Northwest. Readings of haunted lighthouses and native legends quickly turned to readings of the Kalevala and Prose Edda. He took his interests to school where he graduated from University of Portland with a BA in History with a focus on Pagan and Christian interactions in Late Antiquity, then to Fordham University where he earned an MA in History with a focus on royal saints in High Medieval Scandinavia. He now resides with his growing family back where it all began in Southern Oregon.
Martin R. Nelson's books
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Literary Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
Riots and panic have gripped the Crux... The arrival of the Vychians triggered a cascade of terror for weeks. Thousands are missing or dead, but life goes on. Fei finds herself alone like so many others, thrust into her mother's position when a surprise visit illuminates possibilities the likes of which she had ever dreamed. As the chaos in the streets subsides, Damien and the other Pentarchs seek to grasp their new life with an army at their gates, one which seeks to rule. But a boon soon arrives: Thena, the Northern Pentarch, has returned from her long period of mourning with her fellow Dwarves in Highhearth... Off and away in the churning waters of the Verdant Sea, the crew of the Vauras give thanks to the Ancients for the approaching sails of a passing ship. Yet Sea Rat and the others soon deem the horrors of Hakaan preferable to...
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, General Fiction, Literary Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
Resentment festers. Thousands of years after the Empire of Kai'loth fell, the world of Tesseris is bound together by the Five Pentarchs of the Crux. Outside the massive city, the pirates of the Verdant Sea grow bolder with each passing season, and strange tales spread of villages uprooted as if by giants, giving the pentarchy more pressing matters to worry about than corruption within their ranks. Yet in the shadows an ancient order of monks has quietly tasked a select few with finding the lost heirs to the old imperial family... Within the Crux itself, Damien the Pentarch speaks on behalf of the southern continent. His conscience guides him to end the Crux's corruption, but he quickly finds that little can be done without sullying his cloak in the alleys himself. Yet it's in those alleys that the seamstress Fei spends her days toiling for the rich and old nobility,...