The Edge of Worlds
core novel 2016 The Books of the Raksura
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.09 (4,859 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781597808439 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The Edge of Worlds is the fourth novel in The Books of the Raksura series. Groundlings from the Empire of Kish arrive at the Indigo Cloud court seeking help to enter a sealed ancient city at the edge of the world's shallow seas, near the impassable ocean, believing it to be an ancestral home of their people. The Raksura suspect instead that the city was built by their own distant ancestors, the Forerunners, and fear it may be another dangerous, sealed-off prison, a worry sharpened by visions the court has been having of a disaster that could threaten every Raksuran court in the Reaches. Moon, still adjusting to life in his new colony, joins sister queen Jade and a small team investigating the city, and their expedition becomes a race against the predatory Fell, who have also found the ruins and may unleash whatever is sealed within.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Books of the Raksura
- Series: The Books of the Raksura core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Martha Wells
Notes
- From the series record (The Books of the Raksura): The five-novel main sequence of the Raksura series.
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 Books of the Raksura: position 4 of 5: previous The Siren Depths (2012) · next The Harbors of the Sun (2017)
Sources
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