Beyond World's End

Name: Beyond World's End
ISBN: 9780671319557

core novel 2001 Elves on the Road

Record

First published	2001
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	3.94 (2,742 ratings, collected 2026-11-04)
First-edition ISBN	9780671319557
Internal chronology	4

Synopsis

Eric Banyon, a bard who has already helped save the world once, moves into a New York apartment hoping for a quiet life. His building turns out to be a safe house for occultist Guardians who protect the city from supernatural evil, and a new threat is rising. Unethical drug researchers have found that certain psychotropic drugs produce remarkable mental powers and plan to build an army of dependent mercenaries. Aerune mac Audelaine, a lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidhe, wants the same drugs to breach the human world. Eric, with an elven half-breed and a gargoyle, enters a three-way battle of wizardry.

Where it sits

Universe: Elves on the Road
Series: Bedlam's Bard core; position 4 of 7 in the series' recorded order
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Author: Rosemary Edghill

Notes

Also collected with Spirits White as Lightning in the 2012 omnibus A Host of Furious Fancies.
From the series record (Bedlam's Bard): Urban-fantasy novels in which the musician Eric Banyon becomes entangled with hidden elven courts, first in California and later in New York.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

Publication order, within the series Bedlam's Bard: position 4 of 7: previous Bedlam Boyz (1993) · next Spirits White as Lightning (2001)
Internal chronology, within Elves on the Road: position 13 of 24: previous By Slanderous Tongues (2007) · next Chrome Circle (1994)

Sources

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