World's End
core novel 1999 Age of Misrule
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.75 (1,303 ratings, collected 2026-09-07) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780575066809 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The opening novel of the Age of Misrule trilogy finds Jack Churchill and Ruth Gallagher witnessing a supernatural creature kill a man beneath Albert Bridge on the Thames, a violent encounter that draws them both into a Britain where the ancient gods of Celtic myth, the Tuatha De Danann and the monstrous Fomorii, are returning after millennia of banishment from the world. As reality itself begins to warp under the old gods' resurgence, Church and Ruth are drawn together with other unwitting strangers who each begin to discover they have a role to play in the unfolding crisis, setting the stage for their transformation into what the myths call the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons, humanity's chosen defenders against the returning old powers.
Where it sits
- Universe: Age of Misrule
- Series: Age of Misrule core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mark Chadbourn
Notes
- From the series record (Age of Misrule): Core Canon = all 3 novels of the completed Age of Misrule trilogy. Years taken from the author's own Wikipedia bibliography (1999/2000/2001) after other listings (a reader-catalogue series page, the World's End Wikipedia infobox) gave slightly inconsistent years for the same books.
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 Age of Misrule: position 1 of 3: next Darkest Hour (2000)
Sources
- Wikipedia: World's End (Chadbourn novel)
- Wikipedia: Mark Chadbourn
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_End_(Chadbourn_novel)
- Blackwell's (Gollancz publisher listing)
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