Into The Labyrinth (The Death Gate Cycle 6)

by Margaret Weis

Hardcover, 1993

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Spectra (1993), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 444 pages

Description

From his army of the undead, Xar, Lord of the Nexus, learns of the existence of the mysterious Seventh Gate. It is said that this gate grants whoever enters it the power to create worlds--or destroy them. Only Haplo knows its location--but he doesn't know he knows it. Now an ex-lover has been sent to betray Haplo and bring back his corpse. Meanwhile, the assassin Hugh the Hand is also after Haplo, wielding the Accursed Blade. With his old companion Alfred, Haplo must seek sanctuary in the Labyrinth--a deadly prison maze whose inhabitants are condemned to death. Millennia ago a battle raged between the Sartan and the Patryn, and the Sartan sundered the world into four realms--air, fire, stone, and water--and then vanished. But now the two races have rediscovered each other through the magic of the Death Gate--and war is about to erupt anew.… (more)

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LibraryThing member SonicQuack

Although the pace picks up in the latter half of Labyrinth, there is no disguising the languishing pace of the first half and the absence of any noteworthy scenes. Labyrinth is setting the stage for the final conflict, drawing together a fellowship, with the usual traitor within, and actually

creates some worthy tension as a result. Distracting from that is Fizban, a plot mechanic so absurd that it immediately dissolves any engagement with the story. Why the James Bond gags? It's high fantasy, not comedy and it's strikingly out of place. The final stage is worth fighting to though and at that point the lengthy build-up does pay dividends and ensures that readers will be yearning for resolution in the final chapter to follow.

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LibraryThing member coffeesucker

To me, the series began to suffer at this point.

LibraryThing member TheCrow2

In the sixth book of the Death Gate cycle Haplo and Alfred enters the dreadful Labyrinth to fight a common enemy. This series still amazes me wih its details and originality. No papiermache, black & white characters (ok, the dragon-snakes ARE evil...), good plot and yes, I like the senile old

wizard and his anachronistic, out-of-this-world sentences.. :-)

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