![]() ![]() "Complex, challenging.Erikson's strengths are his grown-up characters and his ability to create a world every bit as intricate and messy as our own."-J. 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 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-accomplished with none of the customary rifs on Tolkien. ![]() "I stand slack-jawed in awe of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. has the potential to become known as a defining work in Fantasy." -SF Site 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 now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to decide what I enjoyed more: the richly and ominously magical world of Malaz and Genabackis the large cast of sympathetically-rendered characters or the way the story accumulates to a climax that hits like machinegun fire. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. "Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. A more sinister, shadowbound force is poised to make its first move.Ĭonceived and written on an epic scale, Gardens of the Moon is a breathtaking achievement - a novel in which grand design, a dark and complex mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of enduring characters combine with thrilling, powerful storytelling to resounding effect. However, it would appear the Empire is not the only player in this great game. Yet the Empress’ rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.įor Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his cynical squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to heal the still living and mourn the manyĭead. ![]() Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. The vast Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, its subject states bled dry by interminable warfare and clashes with Anomander Rake, Lord of Moon’s Spawn, and the mysterious Tiste Andii. A thrilling first fantasy novel by an exciting and original new voice in the genre. ![]()
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