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The Gate Thief

core novel 2013 The Mither Mages

Record

First published2013
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating3.78 (17,173 ratings, collected 2026-10-04)
Page count384
First-edition ISBN9780765326584
Internal chronology2

Synopsis

Danny North, still in high school on Earth, now holds in his mind the stolen "outselves" of thirteen centuries of gatemages, torn from the Gate Thief in their struggle at the end of The Lost Gate, and with them more power than any mage has had since the gates closed. He is far too powerful, and every Family that hunted him knows it. On Westil, Wad, the Gate Thief himself, is nearly powerless, having lost everything to Danny, and must survive the court intrigues of the kingdom he once protected. Danny tries to live something like a normal life, train the Orphans who have gathered around him and decide what to do with the Great Gate he can now open at will, while the mages who call themselves Bel and Ishtoreth move toward him with an agenda that explains, at last, why Loki closed the gates so long ago.

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Notes

  • From the series record (The Mither Mages): Orson Scott Card's contemporary fantasy of the Families of Westil, mages exiled to Earth and remembered by humans as the old gods, their powers dwindling since Loki closed the Great Gates thirteen centuries ago, and of Danny North, the gatemage who can reopen them.

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 Mither Mages: position 2 of 3: previous The Lost Gate (2011) · next Gatefather (2015)

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