Orb Sceptre Throne
core novel 2012 Malazan
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.18 (8,523 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 605 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553824773 |
Synopsis
Orb Sceptre Throne is the fourth Novel of the Malazan Empire, set mainly in the city of Darujhistan during roughly the same period as the events of Stonewielder and The Crippled God. With the city finally enjoying a rare stretch of peace after years of war and upheaval, several long-running plotlines converge at once, including the rise of an ambitious would-be tyrant seeking to exploit the city's stability for his own ends, and a separate strand involving the disciplined, honor-bound warrior people known as the Seguleh, whose own internal politics begin to spill over into Darujhistan's affairs just as the city's hard-won calm starts to look dangerously fragile again.
Where it sits
- Universe: Malazan
- Series: Novels of the Malazan Empire core; position 4 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ian C. Esslemont
Notes
- From the series record (Novels of the Malazan Empire): Six novels, 2004-2014.
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 Novels of the Malazan Empire: position 4 of 6: previous Stonewielder (2010) · next Blood and Bone (2012)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_Sceptre_Throne
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