Just remembered this story when starting a history of the decades before the French revolution. I would at least enjoy another chapter where they walk to the King and what comes of this meeting.

I read Angel Magic a few years back and it was solid but a bit to YA at times for me.

Anywhoo - Garth knocks a couple out of the park if you haven't listened (I recommend it as each story has a different narrator over reading).

My husband occasionally points out that my dog….is Dog 🥰

Hey Garth Nix fans here's a project im thinking of. I've got the full series of the seventh tower in paper back.

I'm thinking of rebinding them together to make one single leather bound book. Each book edge will be painted with their corresponding stone colour. And a ribbon will be added so you never lose your place.

Does anyone have any idea of what the cover design should be. I'm thinking of using black leather.

What do you think the front door represents inwas thinking of comparing it to the pearly gates and st peter

Basically made my day.

The full text of my tweet was in reply to someone saying they wanted a Clayr heavy tale:

Clayr heavy would be good.
I'd love to read the detailed story of the fall of the Kingdom and exactly how a petrified Touchstone ended up in Hole Hallow, and how it was ensured that Kerrigor would never get into there.

So all I'm saying is that if this is the subject of the next instalment we see in the Old Kingdom, I'm going to claim this as the inspiration for it 😂😂😂.

You're welcome.

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I finished rereading the first 3 books (and now that I think about it, I don't even remember reading Lirael to completion as a child, let alone Abhorsen). As I weep at the melancholy beauty of these first three books, which one do I read next? T&E? Clariel? Or Goldenhand? What's the correct order?

Anyone have any old kingdom tattoos? I’d love one of the symbol from the book Lirael and a tattoo of Mogget as he along with Lirael are my favorite characters.

I have an exciting announcement!

I've started a Garth Nix fan forum at https://garthnixfans.com/ and I invite you all to join in on the fun. Click through to my welcome post on garthnixfans.com.

In short, over the last 11 years I've been a part of Nix fan communities and wanted to make something that can help archive some of the fantastic content y'all create and discussions we have in a way that's easier to find on the vastness of the internet compared to less-searchable places like Discord servers and organized places like Reddit.

Please reach out ⁠here or on our Discord #forum-chat if you have any questions or are unfamiliar with forum software as they're not as popular as they were 15 years ago. I am a little skeptical about Reddit's future (as outlined here) but I have no plans of closing down r/garthnix or the Discord server and totally understand if folks stay here versus joining another service.

Regardless of which communities you participate in, thank you for being here!

Sincerely,

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Does the walker choose the path, or the path choose the walker?

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It’s been a while since ive reread the whole series, and I can remember and it’s driving me nuts. and I can’t find a list

Hi all,

I'm going mad trying to remember this and I'm hoping someone else does. About 15 years ago when I was a teenager, I distinctly remember my local public library had a PC game on their computers based off of the Keys to the Kingdom series. It wasn't anything especially sophisticated, but I remember it was a legitimate published game where you play as the main character of the books, though I can't remember anything else from it.

Does anyone else remember this? I've been going insane for a few years trying to find reference to it but have yet to find anything that confirms this isn't just a false memory. Many thanks in advance if someone else remembers it!

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The reddit blackout has been partially successful in that the site's value as an ad platform was impacted but we're still not seeing any budging from admin about the issues brought up over the past several months. Not sure what I'm talking about? Read more here.

We're opening back up and would love to hear thoughts as to what folks would like to see us do. For the foreseeable future we will be open and business as usual but if there's a decent discussion and consensus about changing our mode of operation, going restricted, or going private again, then we can definitely change our course.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path choose the walker?

I’m not sure if there is a word for this style, but some of the sentences in Sinister Booksellers of Bath are epic. The one below from Chapter Two has about 70 words! I am reading the book aloud, and the audience finds some of these hard to follow. Some of the connections between phrases seem a bit abrupt, but maybe it is a stylistic thing?

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“He was now trying to straighten the wrought-iron bar that had done the business, so it could be slotted back into its place as one of the levers used to turn the massive screw of the antique bookbinder's press that took pride of place in the front left-hand corner of the shop, a dim mass of dark iron behind the smoke-grimed windows, which had intentionally not been cleaned since 1911.”

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After every story, you have to kind of let all the emotions simmer and sink in. I'm reading to hold the bridge, and after "Old Friends" I had to stop because I was crying. Then I tried to go back and read the next story a few days later but I'm getting choked up again just thinking about Old Friends. Lol

I guess I'm just complaining because I wanted to read through all the different stories all in one go.

Can anybody help me find the passage (or paragraph) where the main character is in some sort of chain gang and is walking forever in some dark world where he can’t eat or sleep? I’m trying to reference it in a book because it inspired a dream but I haven’t read the books since I was a kid. I know this is a long shot so thanks to anyone who reads this!

Just finished the Sinister Booksellers of Bath on audio. I've been a Nix fan for 20 years and this has got to be some of his best writing yet. It's just so crammed to the gills with funny, weird, surprising little moments and details that made me crack a smile every few minutes. Delightfully bizarre and bizarrely delightful.

I guess just what the title says. I was wanting to add the sunstone as it appears in the series to my D&D campaign, but I cant super remember what all of the different colors did.

The Seventh Tower isint exactly known well, even in the Garth Nix community so I know this is a long shot lol, but still, this felt like the best place to ask.

I have made a discord where you can have a role as one of the days or their dawns noons and dusks You will have to prove you can handle the position though

TLDR: Anyone remember what the seventh tower website had on it that they could share.

I'm a big fan of Garth Nix, and have read most of his books. The first series I read was The Seventh Tower. (I found the omnibus at a used book store). but I read it in 2014 or 2015 one, and by that time the website was defunct, and redirected you to starwars.com ( for some reason, I guess because the writing of the book involved Lucasfilm.) I really would love to know what was on that website, and internet archive is no help, all the archived pages are broken. So I was wondering if anyone who visited the website at the time happens to remember anything about it that they could share.

So, I've read the Sabriel series, or at least the 3 books that were out (and I thought were the whole thing based on what was a pretty solid ending) when I read them. Now that I discovered there were more, I plan to go back, but first I revisited an old favorite. A Confusion Of Princes is a book I adored. It had a interesting main character, but it was really the world that was truly what caught my attention. It felt like there was so much to explore, much of it tossed in as if it was normal, which is a great way to do it. The world felt like we were just getting a taste, especially with Khemri's limited experience. I do not wish for a true sequel, Khemri's story is told and told well, but I would love to see more of the world. I would truly love to see a collection of short stories from that world or some books exploring some other part of the empire and its history and enemies. I feel like there was so much teased, but we just never got it.

I didn't quite get it

I'm not really an English native speaker so I read really slow because a lot of words were not so familiar to me since I have a very very basic English vocabulary, imagine googling 4 words in a 2 sentence in the book 😂 but honestly, I loved the introduction! It sets the mood and the theme so much! I really get it now why A lot of people love this trilogy! Well, just to drop it off my chest, and now I'll get back in to reading. 🥸

I've read most of the Old Kingdom books and am on the 5th book of the Keys to the Kingdom series.. Something that stood out to me as soon as I started Mr Monday is the focus on paper and words/letters emphasized, just like in the Old Kingdom books. This has carried up through Lady Friday. Anyone know why Nix has this infatuation with words, paper, letters, etc in his works? It would be one thing if it was just in one series, but two completely different ones with so much focus.

My name is Rhianna, I am a PhD Student doing research at Brunel London University on the topic of Film and Television Studies. To hopefully get more respondents, I wanted to widen the net for the survey. It's possible that many of those who are interested in sci-fi and fantasy books are typically interested in sci-fi and fantasy films and/or TV shows and perhaps have poster(s) of them.

My research is called 'Windows of Fantasy: The Significance of Science Fiction and Fantasy Film and Television Posters' and is on science fiction and fantasy posters.

The aim of the research is to explore the significance of science-fiction and fantasy posters for individuals and groups as a source of cultural significance and meaning. This could help generate a better appreciation of what posters really mean to their owners.

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