Tears of the Anaren
From the minds behind the Apple TV+ Original Series Mythic Quest
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3.7 • 87 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Behold an unforgettable intergalactic love story, rescued from the mists of time and brought to you by the visionaries behind Mythic Quest, the world-changing video game at the heart of the Apple TV+ Original Series.
What connects tantalizing yet tender alien romance with the biggest multiplayer video game of all time? Seasoned storyteller C.W. Longbottom, the Nebula Award-winning science-fiction and fantasy author and head writer of Mythic Quest. C.W. found literary fame with Inside the Caves of Beneroth and Tears of the Anaren, but even his most loyal fans don’t know that Tears of the Anaren began as a short story he wrote in the early 1970s while interning at Amazing Tales magazine.
This never-before-published draft is now yours to discover, complete with C.W.’s (extremely) colorful commentary and an Introduction and Afterword by Ian Grimm, the iconoclastic creator of Mythic Quest. As sparks fly between heroic scoundrel Zeb and space seductress Merrith, we get a glimpse into the mind of a talented young man yearning for greatness. Like early Mozart, it is raw and green — but also magic.
From Charlie Day, Megan Ganz, and Rob McElhenney, the Apple TV+ original comedy series, Mythic Quest, goes behind the scenes to follow the game’s creators. In a workplace focused on building worlds, molding heroes, and creating legends, the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game — they happen in the office. Rob McElhenney stars as Ian Grimm alongside Charlotte Nicdao and F. Murray Abraham.
Customer Reviews
Really well written
Wow. Well done!
Goofy and yet still raw fun
There is something special in having the fictional story about a fictional creator generating that fictional work to enjoy. The Castle series did it with their many castle books… I am sure there are others but I can’t think of any as I type here.
Knowing that the actor who plays the character can know just what the final work of their character is must help, just as having this work will no doubt reflex in the writers room will impact moving forward.
If you don’t know the characters from the show then this becomes a short almost self-parody of 60-70’s space fantasy writing (of which I have read many that don’t work as well as this) but then we have two additional voices layered in. The aged author looking back and his boss. Each adding counterpoints or observations that (while fictional too) feel genuine to those characters.
I would read more of this style of approach from this creative team.
Meh
A weak story, and rushed conclusion made this pretty unsatisfying.