Malazan Book of the Fallen · Book 4
House of Chains
- Published
- 2 December 2002
- Pages
- 732
- ISBN-13
- 9781804995549
- Type
- novel
About this book
House of Chains followed in December 2002 at 732 pages, exactly a year after Memories of Ice, as the fourth installment in Erikson's dense, multi-continent epic -- one of the sequence's many volumes built around the philosophical weight of compassion and complicity underneath its battles.
Its place in Malazan Book of the Fallen
House of Chains is book 4 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It follows Memories of Ice. It is followed by Midnight Tides. See the full Malazan Book of the Fallen reading order.
The Malazan Empire has spent a century conquering a continent through sorcery, siege warfare and the ascension of its soldiers to godhood, and the empire's oldest, most battle-worn armies are starting to wonder whether the throne they fight for still deserves their loyalty. Steven Erikson opens Gardens of the Moon in the middle of an already-vast, already-old world, with no orientation and no apology, and asks readers to catch up — gods walk among mortals and scheme like politicians, ten-thousand-year-old empires…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765310040
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409083214
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409083207