Fire Sea
- 436
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Fire Sea” is the dark third volume in which “The Death Gate Cycle” begins to pull together. Haplo, a Patryn agent, and Alfred, a Sartan who has lost his own people, explore the realm of Abarrach as unwilling partners. Readers repeatedly single out how both men change, finding their worlds less clear-cut than they believed. The grim mood is rendered with real skill.
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About the book
Fire Sea is a fantasy novel by American writers Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It is the third book in The Death Gate Cycle series and was released in 1991, The novel explores the realm of Abarrach and the history of the Sartan through the unlikely partnership of Haplo, a Patryn agent sent by Lord Xar to evaluate Abarrach, and Alfred, a Sartan who lost all the others of his race with whom he once lived.
Reading order · The Death Gate Cycle
Full order & progress →- Dragon WingStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - Elven Star
7.97.9 / 10 - Fire SeaThis book
8.18.1 / 10 - The Hand of Chaos
8.08.0 / 10 - Into the Labyrinth
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 103 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 41% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.7 | 15 | 15% |
| Google Books | 7.0 | 10 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 78 | 76% |
Frequently asked
How long is Fire Sea?
It has 436 pages — shorter than 68% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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