Malarkoi
core novel 2022 Cities of the Weft
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.67 (826 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 519 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781913111441 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Malarkoi, published by Alex Pheby in 2022, continues the Cities of the Weft trilogy in the aftermath of the climactic events of Mordew. The surviving cast, Nathan's mother Clarissa, his friends Dashini, Gam, and Prissy, and the magical dog Sirius, scatter from a commandeered ship in different directions, each pursuing their own separate goals and paths through the wider world of the weft. The narrative shifts to a multi-perspective structure, rotating among these characters as they make their way toward or through Malarkoi, a city with its own pluralistic, fragmented structure quite unlike the tightly centralized rule of Mordew. As the group's paths diverge and occasionally cross again, the novel deliberately unsettles the expectations set up by the first book's more familiar chosen-one framing.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cities of the Weft
- Series: Cities of the Weft core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Alex Pheby
Notes
- From the series record (Cities of the Weft): A complete New Weird-inflected dark fantasy trilogy following the boy Nathan Treeves through the ruined city of Mordew and beyond. Mordew (2020) was named a Book of the Year by The Guardian, Tor.com, and Locus; the trilogy concluded with Waterblack in 2025.
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 Cities of the Weft: position 2 of 3: previous Mordew (2020) · next Waterblack (2025)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Cities of the Weft
- Wikipedia: Mordew
- https://reactormag.com/book-review-malarkoi-by-alex-pheby/
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