The Fires of Merlin
core novel 1998 The Lost Years of Merlin
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (9,725 ratings, collected 2026-09-23) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399230202 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
A fire dragon awakens and threatens to destroy Fincayra. Still learning to master his own powers, Merlin must find a way to stop it while facing kreelixes that feed on magic, the mysterious Wheel of Wye, and the sorceress Domnu, all while wrestling with doubts about himself before he can confront the dragon's full power.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Lost Years of Merlin
- Series: The Lost Years of Merlin core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: T. A. Barron
Notes
- From the series record (The Lost Years of Merlin): The original, complete five-book pentalogy (1996-2000); the opening arc of the author's larger 13-book Merlin Saga. The later 'Merlin's Dragon' trilogy (2008-2011) and subsequent trilogies continue the wider saga but are a separate, later-published continuation, not part of this closed pentalogy, and are out of scope for this admission.
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 Lost Years of Merlin: position 3 of 5: previous The Seven Songs of Merlin (1997) · next The Mirror of Merlin (1999)
Sources
- Lost Years of Merlin series - Wikipedia
- The Merlin Saga Guide (author's own site, PDF)
- Merlin Book 3: The Raging Fires - Wikipedia
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