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Realm of the Elderlings · Book 5

The Mad Ship

by Robin Hobb
Published
1 January 1999
Pages
769
ISBN-13
9781400144389
Type
novel
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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.

Key facts about The Mad Ship

The Mad Ship is a novel by Robin Hobb. Readers have had it since 1999. It runs to 769 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of The Mad Ship. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781400144389 to find the main one.

The Mad Ship is book 5 of 16 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. The series has 16 published books. However, the series starts with Assassin's Apprentice (1995).

Additionally, Robin Hobb writes The Ki and Vandien Quartet and The Soldier Son Trilogy as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and epic fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Assassin's Fate is the latest published Robin Hobb book on file, from May 2017.

About Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb is the primary pen name of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, an American fantasy author best known for the Realm of the Elderlings, a sprawling sequence of interconnected trilogies beginning with the Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest) and continuing through the Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, Rain Wild Chronicles, and Fitz and the Fool trilogies. See every Robin Hobb book in order.

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…

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