House of Chains
core novel 2002 Malazan
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.34 (57,970 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 1015 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593046258 |
Synopsis
House of Chains is the fourth novel in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It follows a Teblor warrior named Karsa Orlong, who descends from his isolated mountain homeland on a violent personal odyssey and is eventually captured and enslaved by agents of the Malazan Empire, an experience that reshapes his understanding of the wider world. Meanwhile Adjunct Tavore Paran, newly appointed and largely untested in the eyes of her own soldiers, leads the reconstituted Malazan Fourteenth Army into the Holy Desert of Raraku to confront the rebel prophet Sha'ik and finally put down the Seven Cities uprising.
Where it sits
- Universe: Malazan
- Series: Malazan Book of the Fallen core; position 4 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Steven Erikson
Notes
- From the series record (Malazan Book of the Fallen): Ten novels, 1999-2011.
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 Malazan Book of the Fallen: position 4 of 10: previous Memories of Ice (2001) · next Midnight Tides (2004)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Chains
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