Series
The Age of Madness
Joe Abercrombie · 3 novels · 4 short stories · 1 collection · 2019–2023
The Age of Madness is Joe Abercrombie's second trilogy in the Circle of the World, picking up decades after his original First Law books as the Union is upended by industrialization and populist unrest. Across A Little Hatred, The Trouble with Peace, and The Wisdom of Crowds, the children of the first trilogy's characters inherit its violence and moral compromises while a new generation of workers and agitators pushes back against the old order. It keeps the series' grim, morally ambiguous tone but trades war between nations for conflict within one.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Age of Madness at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s1
- 2020s7
Shape
3 novels · 4 short stories · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:grimdarkclass conflictsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Great Change (and Other Lies)darkest · calmest
- A Little Hatredbrightest · most intense