Malazan Book of the Fallen · Book 5
Midnight Tides
- Published
- 1 March 2004
- Pages
- 631
- ISBN-13
- 9781429926935
- Type
- novel

About this book
Midnight Tides, published in March 2004 at 631 pages, is notably shorter than House of Chains before it, the fifth entry in a series famous for withholding exposition and demanding real patience -- traits that ease, without disappearing, as the sequence progresses.
Its place in Malazan Book of the Fallen
Midnight Tides is book 5 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It follows House of Chains. It is followed by The Bonehunters. 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 9780765316516
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409083221
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765310057