Monday 15 May 2023

Final WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW novel gets a release date

The long, long-awaited final novel in Janny Wurts' Wars of Light and Shadow series now has a release date. Song of the Mysteries will be published in May 2024.


The Wars of Light and Shadow series details the conflict between two half-brothers who rise to positions of power, but then face a supernatural threat to the whole world. The series consists of eleven novels divided into five distinct sub-arcs, as follows:


Arc I
  • Curse of the Mistwraith (1993)
Arc II
  • Ships of Merior (1994)
  • Warhost of Vastmark (1995)
Arc III: Alliance of Light
  • Fugitive Prince (1995)
  • Grand Conspiracy (1999)
  • Peril's Gate (2001)
  • Traitor's Knot (2004)
  • Stormed Fortress (2007)
Arc IV: Sword of the Canon
  • Initiate's Trial (2011)
  • Destiny's Conflict (2017)
Arc V
  • Song of the Mysteries (2024)
The first novel was published in 1993, just three years after the first Wheel of Time novel and three years before A Game of Thrones, making this one of the longest-gestating fantasy series that was still incomplete. However, Wurts began thinking about and planning the series in 1972, making this an ending fifty years in the making.

1 comment:

Natstown said...

Did you ever read these? They've intrigued me for years