

The Black Company, Zelazny's Amber, Vance's Dying Earth, and other mighty drumbeats are but foreshadowings of this dark dragon's hoard."-Glen Cook, "Erikson is an extraordinary writer. This marathon of ambition has a depth and breadth and sense of vast reaches of inimical time unlike anything else available today. This masterwork of imagination may be the high water mark of epic fantasy. Donaldson "I stand slack-jawed in awe of The Malazan Book of the Fallen.


And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster."-Stephen R. My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster., "Erikson is an extraordinary writer. Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order-an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice.Įrikson is an extraordinary writer. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand. However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire in this first book in a major epic fantasy series The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers.
