King of Thorns
core novel 2012 The Broken Empire
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.17 (71,802 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| Page count | 449 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781937007478 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Broken Empire
- Series: The Broken Empire core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mark Lawrence
Awards (verified)
- Readers' Choice Awards (Fantasy), 2012: nominated; Reader-vote finalist round; did not win.
- David Gemmell Legend Award, 2013: nominated
Notes
- From the series record (The Broken Empire): Jorg Ancrath's ascent from road-brigand prince to emperor (2011-2013). No universe-wide internal chronology is recorded: the companion Red Queen's War trilogy runs CONCURRENTLY with this one, depicting overlapping events from a different POV (shared scenes appear in both, e.g. Jorg's duel with Sir Galen), so any single linear ordering across the universe would be false precision, the author himself says the two trilogies 'can be read in either order' (recorded in prose rather than forced into integers).
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 The Broken Empire: position 2 of 3: previous Prince of Thorns (2011) · next Emperor of Thorns (2013)
Sources
← The Broken Empire dossier · All universes
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