The Three Worlds Cycle is a series of novels written by author Ian Irvine

Ian Irvine

Ian Irvine is an Australian fantasy and eco-thriller author and marine scientist. To date Irvine has written 27 novels, including fantasy, eco-thrillers and books for children. He has had books published in at least 12 countries and continues to write full-time.- Career :Irvine was born in...

. The series comprises The View from the Mirror

The View from the Mirror

The View from the Mirror is the first quartet in Ian Irvine's bestselling The Three Worlds Cycle series.-Titles:The View from the Mirror consists of four books:*A Shadow on the Glass*The Tower on the Rift*Dark is the Moon...

quartet, The Well of Echoes

Well of Echoes

The Well of Echoes is a quartet of novels written by Ian Irvine and is the second arc of The Three Worlds Cycle series.-Titles:The Well of Echoes consists of four books:*Geomancer*Tetrarch*Scrutator / Alchymist...

quartet, The Song of the Tears

Song of the Tears

The Song of the Tears is a trilogy, forming the third cycle of Ian Irvine's The Three Worlds Cycle series.- Titles :The Song of the Tears consists of three books:*Torments of the Traitor / Fate of the Fallen...

trilogy, and The Fate of the Children (working title) trilogy.

The Three Worlds

The "Three Worlds" after which the cycle is named are the three planets of:

• Aachan – Home of the Aachim
• Santhenar – Home of the Old Humans and the setting of most of the cycle
• Tallallame – Home of the Faellem, the Mariem and the Lyrinx

The View from the Mirror

The View from the Mirror

The View from the Mirror

The View from the Mirror is the first quartet in Ian Irvine's bestselling The Three Worlds Cycle series.-Titles:The View from the Mirror consists of four books:*A Shadow on the Glass*The Tower on the Rift*Dark is the Moon...

is a quartet:

• A Shadow on the Glass
  A Shadow on the Glass
  A Shadow on the Glass is the first novel in The View from the Mirror quartet. The author is Ian Irvine, an Australian writer of fantasy and eco-thriller novels....
  
  
• The Tower on the Rift
  The Tower on the Rift
  The Tower on the Rift is the second novel in The View from the Mirror quartet, by Ian Irvine.- Official Synopsis:War rages across Santhenar as its powerful forces pursue the Mirror of Aachan. A desperate Tensor, leader of the Aachim people, flees with it into the wilderness, taking the brilliant...
  
  
• Dark is the Moon
  Dark is the Moon
  Dark is the Moon is the third novel in The View from the Mirror quartet, by Ian Irvine.- Official Synopsis :Volume 3 of the acclaimed The View from the Mirror quartet continues the action begun in A Shadow on the Glass and The Tower on the Rift. Rulke the Great Betrayer is free at last to use the...
  
  
• The Way Between the Worlds
  The Way Between the Worlds
  The Way Between the Worlds is the fourth novel in The View from the Mirror quartet, by Ian Irvine.- Official Synopsis :There is a dark full moon one mid-winter's day. The foretelling has come to pass. Rulke the Charon is unstoppable now. Karan is held captive in desolate Carcharan tower. Rulke...
  
  

The Well of Echoes

The Well of Echoes

The Well of Echoes

The Well of Echoes is a quartet of novels written by Ian Irvine and is the second arc of The Three Worlds Cycle series.-Titles:The Well of Echoes consists of four books:*Geomancer*Tetrarch*Scrutator / Alchymist...

is a quartet:

• Geomancer
  Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
  Geomancer is the first book of the The Well of Echoes quartet, written by Ian Irvine. It is set on the world of Santhenar, 200 years after the events of The View from the Mirror series. The old humans of Santhenar are engaged in a war against the Lyrinx, a monstrous humanoid race that emerged from...
  
  
• Tetrarch
  Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
  Tetrarch is the second novel in Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes quartet.- Plot summary:Tiaan wanders the ancient, abandoned city of Tirthrax aimlessly. She still clutches the dead body of her adopted-sister, Haani, who was killed by a nervous Aachim shooter...
  
  
• Scrutator
  Scrutator
  Scrutator is the third book in Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes quartet. It is named Alchymist in the UK and Canada.- Official Synopsis :...
  
  / Alchymist
• Chimaera
  Chimaera (Well of Echoes)
  Chimaera is the fourth and final book in Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes quartet.- Official Synopsis :All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council's air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo's defences...
  
  

The Song of the Tears

The Song of the Tears is a trilogy:

• Torments of the Traitor / Fate of the Fallen
• The Curse on the Chosen
  The Curse on the Chosen
  The Curse on the Chosen is the second book in Ian Irvine's The Song of the Tears trilogy.- Official Synopsis :The allies are trapped on Mistmurk Mountain and the God-Emperor guards every way of escape...
  
  
• The Destiny of the Dead
  The Destiny of the Dead
  The Destiny of the Dead is the third book in Ian Irvine's The Song of the Tears trilogy.It is broken up in three parts over 3 main areas, the Battle at the Range of Ruins, the search for the White-Ice Fire and the Last Battle....
  
  

The third book in this series has recently been released.

The Fate of the Children

The Fate of the Children was originally planned to be a single novel to finish off the series, but it was confirmed that it will be a trilogy on one of the final pages of Destiny of the Dead.

Irvine has stated that it is a prequel to The Well of Echoes, yet a sequel to The View from the Mirror. It has been confirmed by Irvine that the novels are to answer questions that are opened at the end of The Way Between the Worlds. Additionally, events at the end of Destiny of the Dead suggest that the new trilogy may be both a prequel and sequel to The Well of Echoes and The Song of the Tears.

Four characters from The View From the Mirror quartet are set to reappear in The Fate of the Children:

• Karan
• Llian
• Maigraith
• Shand