Two Serpents Rise
core novel 2013 The Craft Sequence
Record
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.89 (7,248 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 347 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765333131 |
Synopsis
Two Serpents Rise continues the Craft Sequence in the desert city of Dresediel Lex, following Three Parts Dead. Caleb Altemoc, a professional risk manager and gambler working for Red King Consolidated, is sent to address a contamination crisis after shadow demons infest the water supply relied upon by the city's sixteen million residents. During the investigation he meets Mal, a nimble cliff-runner with her own agenda, and the two are drawn together as the case grows more dangerous. Caleb's estranged father, once a priest of the old gods and now a leader of a group seeking to restore the faith the city abandoned, resurfaces and appears connected to the attacks on the water supply.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Craft Sequence
- Series: The Craft Sequence core; position 2 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Max Gladstone
Notes
- From the series record (The Craft Sequence): The first six novels are each independently standalone within one shared world rather than a single strict reading order (the author's own note); the final three, marketed as 'The Craft Wars', form a direct continuation that does run forward in time book to book. All nine are treated as one Core Canon sequence per this project's usual practice for a single author's continuous secondary-world project.
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 Craft Sequence: position 2 of 9: previous Three Parts Dead (2012) · next Full Fathom Five (2014)
Sources
- Encyclopedic overview: The Craft Sequence
- Author's own series page: The Craft Sequence
- https://www.maxgladstone.com/writing/two-serpents-rise/
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