''The Seventh Gate'' (1994) is a

fantasy novel Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. magic (paranormal), Magic, the supernatural and Legendary creature, magical creatures are common i ...

by American writers

Margaret Weis Margaret Edith Weis (; born March 16, 1948) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories. At TSR, Inc., she teamed with Tracy Hickman to create the ''Dragonlance'' role-playing game (RPG) world. She is f ...

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Tracy Hickman Tracy Raye Hickman (born November 26, 1955) is an American fantasy author and designer of games and virtual reality (VR) experiences. He co-authored the original ''Dragonlance'' novels with Margaret Weis as well as numerous other books. He also ...

, the seventh and final book in their Death Gate Cycle series.

Plot summary

Alfred, Haplo, and Marit journey to attempt to close the Chamber of the Damned on Abarrach—it is the Seventh Gate, a portal between worlds. Encountering magical enemies such as dragon-snakes, as the story progresses they battle ferociously. Eventually, they realise that the only way to seal the gate is to work a powerful, peaceful spell together, Sartan with Patryn. At length, this succeeds—the gate is sealed, and there is some hope of peace. The Patryns and Sartan remain living together in the Labyrinth.

Reception

The book hit the bestseller lists for

Waldenbooks Walden Book Company, Inc., doing business as Waldenbooks, was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain and a subsidiary of Borders. The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's e ...

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B. Dalton B. Dalton Bookseller was an American retail bookstore chain founded in 1966 by Bruce Dayton, a member of the same family that operated the Dayton's department store chain. B. Dalton expanded to become the largest retailer of hardcover books i ...

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''The Seventh Gate'' reached 14 on the New York Times bestseller list on August 28, 1994.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seventh Gate, The 1994 American novels Novels by Margaret Weis Novels by Tracy Hickman The Death Gate Cycle novels