Ships from the West
core novel 2002 The Monarchies of God
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.70 (859 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 320 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780575074002 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
The concluding Monarchies of God novel opens sixteen years after the events of The Second Empire, with the series' surviving characters aged and a new generation coming into its own: Corfe now has a young daughter, Mirren, by his wife Odelia, while Jemilla's controversial son Bleyn has grown into a young man with his own claim on the throne. As an enormous enemy army gathers at Charibon with its sights set directly on the capital of Torunna, King Abeleyn presses forward with an equally audacious response, building the mightiest fleet the world has ever seen to sail west and confront the evils Richard Hawkwood's earlier voyage first uncovered there. With no character's survival guaranteed and the series' long-running conflicts finally coming to a head, the stakes facing the western kingdoms surpass anything the earlier volumes had prepared them, or their readers, to expect.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Monarchies of God
- Series: The Monarchies of God core; position 5 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Paul Kearney
Notes
- From the series record (The Monarchies of God): A five-novel epic fantasy sequence set in a continent modelled loosely on Renaissance-era Europe, following a sea captain, kings, and a religious purge across a sustained secondary-world war.
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 The Monarchies of God: position 5 of 5: previous The Second Empire (2000)
Sources
- The Monarchies of God series bibliography (specialised genre-fiction site)
- http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2013/02/review-of-ships-from-west-by-paul.html
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