Waterblack
core novel 2025 Cities of the Weft
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.84 (275 ratings, collected 2026-08-19) |
| Page count | 640 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781913111595 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Waterblack, published by Alex Pheby in 2025, concludes the Cities of the Weft trilogy after Mordew and Malarkoi. Continuing directly from the divergent paths taken by Clarissa, Dashini, Gam, Prissy, and Sirius at the end of Malarkoi, the novel brings the trilogy's scattered characters and storylines back toward a shared reckoning with the wider structure of the weft-woven world introduced across the first two books. As the surviving cast converge on Waterblack itself, the title city and setting for the trilogy's conclusion, the novel closes out the questions raised since Mordew about the true nature of the weft, the cities built from it, and the fate of the world Nathan Treeves once seemed destined to reshape.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cities of the Weft
- Series: Cities of the Weft core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Alex Pheby
Notes
- From the series record (Cities of the Weft): A complete New Weird-inflected dark fantasy trilogy following the boy Nathan Treeves through the ruined city of Mordew and beyond. Mordew (2020) was named a Book of the Year by The Guardian, Tor.com, and Locus; the trilogy concluded with Waterblack in 2025.
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 Cities of the Weft: position 3 of 3: previous Malarkoi (2022)
Sources
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