Menzoberranzan appears prominently in the "War of the Spider Queen" series, particularly as the setting of the first novel in the series "Dissolution" (2002), as well as "Condemnation" (2003), "Extinction" (2004), "Annihilation" (2004), and "Resurrection" (2005). The "War of the Spider Queen" series is written by six authors with two editors; Philip Athans and R.A. Salvatore. The series "returns to Drizzt Do’Urden’s homeland, the Underdark, to spin a tale of a ragged band of four dark elves on a desperate quest to find Lloth, drow goddess and the demon Queen of Spiders, and save their subterranean city of Menzoberranzan and the entire dark elf race".