The Great Ordeal
core novel 2016 The Second Apocalypse
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (3,390 ratings, collected 2026-08-11) |
| Page count | 504 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781468314885 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Second Apocalypse
- Series: The Aspect-Emperor core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: R. Scott Bakker
Notes
- From the series record (The Aspect-Emperor): Completed tetralogy, set 20 years after The Prince of Nothing.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Aspect-Emperor: position 3 of 4: previous The White-Luck Warrior (2011) · next The Unholy Consult (2017)
- Internal chronology, within The Second Apocalypse: position 6 of 7: previous The White-Luck Warrior (2011) · next The Unholy Consult (2017)
Sources
← The Second Apocalypse dossier · All universes
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