Across the Face of the World
core novel 2004 Fire of Heaven
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.26 (1,390 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781841494630 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Across the Face of the World opens the Fire of Heaven trilogy with a group of villagers thrown into crisis after Mahnum, a man from their community who had traveled into a distant, hostile land, discovers that it is preparing an invasion. Rather than taking the shortest route to warn his kingdom's rulers, Mahnum chooses to return home first, a decision that leads to both him and his wife being captured by the enemy soon after. Their children are left to take up the burden their parents could not finish: racing across a dangerous and largely unknown landscape both to rescue their parents and to carry word of the coming invasion to those in power before it is too late, launching an urgent journey across the world that gives the trilogy its name.
Where it sits
- Universe: Fire of Heaven
- Series: Fire of Heaven core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Russell Kirkpatrick
Notes
- From the series record (Fire of Heaven): Core Canon = all three novels; complete trilogy, no companion material.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Fire of Heaven: position 1 of 3: next In the Earth Abides the Flame (2005)
Sources
- Wikipedia
- reader rating platform
- https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Russell-Kirkpatrick/Across-the-Face-of-the-World.html
- PaperBackSwap (Orbit UK edition record)
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