Into the Labyrinth (Death Gate Cycle) - Softcover

Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553403788 ISBN 13: 9780553403787

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1994

Synopsis

The sixth "Death Gate" novel. Alfred and Haplo enter the terrifying prison maze that has been shrouded in mystery since the beginning of the series. Accompanying them are the two assassins sent to take Haplo's life - one reformed by death and the other a woman who once won Haplo's heart.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Independence, Missouri, Margaret Weis graduated from the University of Missouri and worked as a book editor before teaming up with Tracy Hickman to develop the Dragonlance novels. Margaret lives in a renovated barn in Wisconsin with her daughter, Elizabeth Baldwin, and her three cats. She enjoys reading (especially Charles Dickens), opera and rollerskating. Born in Salt Lake City, Tracy Hickman resides in Wisconsin in a 100-year-old Victorian home with his wife and four children. When he isn't reading or writing, he is eating or sleeping. On Sundays, he conducts the hymns at the local Mormon church.

From Publishers Weekly:

Alternating between incoherence and impenetrability, the sixth volume in the Death Gate series takes place in Abarrach, a land filled with magic, necromancers and the walking dead. Xar, the Lord of Abarrach, seeks control of the Seventh Gate, located beyond Death itself, which has the power to sunder the world. But Haplo, an adventurer with some magic of his own, may be a threat to Xar's plans. To eliminate him, the Lord sends an assassin (who quickly defects to the other side) and Haplo's former lover, Marit, who is now bound magically to Xar. Haplo and his companion Alfred must enter the ancient punishment caverns of the Labyrinth to defeat Xar's schemes. Burdened by clumsy expository writing and thin, uninteresting characters, the story is further weighted down by frequent footnotes intended to aid those who are not familiar with the series; instead, they make an already confusing plot more difficult to follow. Even Death Gate fans may find this poorly constructed novel disappointing.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0553403788
• ISBN 13: 9780553403787
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496