Path to Ascendancy
Ebook cover of the series
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| Author | Steven Erikson |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | High fantasy |
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Bantam Books (UK) Tor Books (US) Subterranean Press (Limited Edition) |
| Published | 1 April 1999 – 21 February 2011 |
| Media type | Print Digital |
| No. of books | 10 |
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Malazan Book of the Fallen is an epic fantasy series written by Canadian author Steven Erikson. The series, published by Bantam Books in the United Kingdom and Tor Books in the United States, consists of ten volumes beginning with the novel Gardens of the Moon published in April 1999, and concluding with the publication of The Crippled God in February 2011. Erikson's series is extremely complex with a wide scope, and presents the narratives of a large cast of characters spanning thousands of years across multiple continents. His plotting presents a complicated series of events in the world upon which the Malazan Empire is located. Each of the first five novels is relatively self-contained, in that it resolves its respective primary conflict; but many underlying characters and events are interwoven throughout the works of the series, binding it together.
The Malazan world was co-created by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont in the early 1980s as a backdrop to their GURPS roleplaying campaign. In 2005, Esslemont began publishing his own series of six novels set in the same world, beginning with Night of Knives. Although Esslemont's books are published under a different series title – Novels of the Malazan Empire – Esslemont and Erikson collaborated on the storyline for the entire sixteen-book project and Esslemont's novels are considered to be as canonical and integral to the series' mythos as Erikson's own.
The series has received widespread critical acclaim, with reviewers praising the epic scope, plot complexity and characterizations, and fellow authors such as Glen Cook (The Black Company) and Stephen R. Donaldson (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) hailing it as a masterwork of the imagination, and comparing Erikson to the likes of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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