Realm of the Elderlings · Book 5
The Mad Ship
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 769
- ISBN-13
- 9781400144389
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Mad Ship followed in 1999 as the fifth Realm of the Elderlings novel, continuing the Liveship Traders trilogy's sentient ships and slave-trade politics. At 769 pages it's the longest book in the trilogy.
Its place in Realm of the Elderlings
The Mad Ship is book 5 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. It follows Ship of Magic. It is followed by Ship of Destiny. See the full Realm of the Elderlings reading order.
Realm of the Elderlings is Robin Hobb's umbrella name for sixteen novels across five trilogies and quartets, all set in the same world and connected above all by FitzChivalry Farseer — a royal bastard trained as a covert assassin, bonded against every rule of his society to a wolf, and forced across decades to keep choosing duty over the one thing he actually wants. The saga opens with the Farseer trilogy's court intrigue and blood magic, widens into the Liveship Traders trilogy's sentient, memory-hungry sailing…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781400144389
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780606192798
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553575644