The Fall
core novel 2000 The Seventh Tower
Record
| First published | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.84 (9,816 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780439176828 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Thirteen-year-old Tal lives in the Castle, an ancient structure built above an eternally dark, sunless world, where every member of the ruling Chosen must complete a coming-of-age ritual by capturing a Sunstone, a device that channels light and magic. When his father goes missing during an expedition and his mother falls dangerously ill without the light a Sunstone would provide, Tal is forced to attempt the dangerous ritual himself, alone and unprepared. After he is caught trying to steal a replacement Sunstone and thrown from the Castle into the Dark World below, he is rescued by the Icecarls, a clan of tribal ice-dwellers, and meets Milla, a young warrior who reluctantly agrees to help him find his way back.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Seventh Tower
- Series: The Seventh Tower core; position 1 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Garth Nix
Notes
- From the series record (The Seventh Tower): A completed 6-book middle-grade secondary-world fantasy sequence (Scholastic, 2000-2001), distinct from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom and Keys to the Kingdom universes: an unrelated setting split between the underground Castle and the sunlit surface world Aenir/the Veil.
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 Seventh Tower: position 1 of 6: next Castle (2000)
Sources
- Reference listing: The Seventh Tower
- Rating-platform listing: The Seventh Tower series
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(Nix_novel)
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