The Winter Knights
core novel 2005 The Edge Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.22 (4,819 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 382 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780385736121 |
| Internal chronology | 8 |
Synopsis
The Winter Knights opens the fourth saga of the Edge Chronicles, centered on Quint, the son of a sky pirate, as he trains at the Knights Academy in the floating city of Sanctaphrax. An unrelenting winter has settled over the Edgeworld, its blizzards disrupting daily life and unsettling the city's institutions. Eager to master flight and push past what his instructors allow, Quint breaks academy protocol and ventures alone into the Open Sky, the perilous region beyond the world's usual boundaries. There he encounters massive, little-understood sky creatures known as cloud-eaters, whose presence hints at a danger far greater than the winter itself, and Quint must draw on skills he has only begun to develop to keep the threat from overwhelming Sanctaphrax.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Edge Chronicles
- Series: The Edge Chronicles core; position 8 of 13 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Paul Stewart
- Author: Chris Riddell
Notes
- From the series record (The Edge Chronicles): Thirteen novels illustrated throughout by Chris Riddell.
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 Edge Chronicles: position 8 of 13: previous Freeglader (2004) · next Clash of the Sky Galleons (2006)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Edge Chronicles
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/173466/edge-chronicles-the-winter-knights-by-paul-stewart-and-chris-riddell/
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