No Life Forsaken
core novel 2025 Malazan
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.47 (2,019 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 432 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765323606 |
Synopsis
The second Tale of Witness by Steven Erikson is set about a decade after the main events of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, in the city of G'danisban. As religious cults tied to the goddess Va'Shaik grow increasingly restless and confrontational under continued Malazan rule, High Fist Jalan Arenfall is left to maintain order in the volatile city with only a small contingent of marines at his disposal, a badly undermanned force facing a crisis that threatens to spiral well beyond the garrison's ability to contain it alone, testing what remains of Malazan authority in a city that has never fully accepted imperial rule.
Where it sits
- Universe: Malazan
- Series: Tales of Witness core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Steven Erikson
Notes
- Released October 2025.
- From the series record (Tales of Witness): Restructured July 2024 from trilogy to four books; Legacies of Betrayal slated Oct 2026.
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 Tales of Witness: position 2 of 2: previous The God is Not Willing (2021)
Sources
- https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2025/04/no-life-forsaken-new-malazan-novel-from.html
- https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/no-life-forsaken-by-steven-erikson/
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