The main character, Thomas, arrives at the Glade. To do so, certain Gladers called 'Runners' venture into the Maze every day, to map it in an attempt to find a pattern in the Maze that would lead them to find an exit. The ultimate goal of the Gladers is to find a way out of the Maze. Each beetle blade has the word 'WICKED' stamped across its back.

They are watched by mechanical beetles, called 'beetle blades' which belong to their 'creators'. The only thing that they remember is their name. Each newcomer has all past memories (except language and other common things) wiped out. Every month, a newcomer, nicknamed 'Greenie', joins the Gladers, sent by a lift they call the Box. Beyond the walls of the Glade is the ever-changing Maze, populated by horrifying, biomechanical creatures, called Grievers. The Glade is surrounded by four doors, leading to the Maze, that close every night at sundown and open in the morning.

The Maze Runner is the first book in the series and was released on October 6, 2009.Ī group of teenagers, who call themselves 'Gladers', are left in a strange place which they call the 'Glade'. The series, revealing details in non-chronological order, tells how the world was devastated by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

The sixth novel, titled The Maze Cutter, set 73 years following the events of The Death Cure, was released on October 4th, 2022. The series consists of The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010) and The Death Cure (2011), as well as two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016), a novella titled Crank Palace (2020), and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013). The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book

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