Cover of Death's Master

Death's Master

core novel 1979 Tales from the Flat Earth

Record

First published1979
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.22 (1,598 ratings, collected 2026-08-26)
Page count348
First-edition ISBN9780879974411
Internal chronology2

Where it sits

Awards (verified)

  • British Fantasy Award (Best Novel), 1980: won

Notes

  • From the series record (Tales from the Flat Earth): A cycle of interlinked, Arabian Nights-inspired dark mythic fantasies about the Lords of Darkness who rule a legendary flat world before the age of humanity as it is now known. The author died in 2015; treated as complete at the five novels published as the main sequence.

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.

Sources

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