The Girl and the Stars
core novel 2020 Book of the Ancestor / Book of the Ice
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.80 (13,128 ratings, collected 2026-10-08) |
| Page count | 496 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780008284756 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
On Abeth, a world almost entirely buried under ice, the tribes that survive on the frozen surface have a hard rule: a child who is not strong enough, who shows the wrong signs, is thrown into the Pit of the Missing by the regulator at the annual gathering, and never seen again. Yaz, sixteen, of the Ictha, knows that she is such a child, and when her younger brother is the one thrown in instead, she jumps after him. Beneath the ice she finds not death but the Broken, a society of the discarded living in caverns around the heat of the planet's buried past, hunted by the mutated hunters the ice has made, ruled by factions, and warmed by the relics of the civilisation that built the ancient cities under the ice. The first book of the trilogy, almost entirely under the ice.
Where it sits
- Universe: Book of the Ancestor / Book of the Ice
- Series: Book of the Ice core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mark Lawrence
Notes
- From the series record (Book of the Ice): Mark Lawrence's second trilogy on Abeth, the dying ice-world of the Book of the Ancestor: Yaz of the ice tribes, thrown into the Pit of the Missing, and her journey across the ice to the green Corridor and the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where the two trilogies' stories meet.
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 Book of the Ice: position 1 of 3: next The Girl and the Mountain (2021)
Sources
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