The Tales of Witness · Book 2

No Life Forsaken

by Steven Erikson

Published
23 October 2025
Pages
760
ISBN-13
9781787632882
Type
novel

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About this book

No Life Forsaken continued the story more than four years later, in October 2025, at an even longer 760 pages, picking up directly from the first book's escalating crisis -- what was originally meant to be the trilogy's second volume before it split into two novels during writing.

Its place in The Tales of Witness

No Life Forsaken is book 2 in the The Tales of Witness series. It follows The God Is Not Willing. See the full The Tales of Witness reading order.

The Tales of Witness returns Steven Erikson to the Malazan world for a story set after the events of the original ten-book Malazan Book of the Fallen, centred on the city of Lether and the fallout of empire, faith and grief in the sequence's aftermath. The God Is Not Willing (2021) picks up years after The Crippled God, following Karsa Orlong -- one of Malazan's most towering figures -- as a new threat gathers around Silver Lake and the increasingly fractured settlements of the north, while a cast including…

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