Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The first six novels in his Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence - Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, Midnight Tides and The Bonehunters - have met with widespread international acclaim and established him as a major voice in the world of fantasy fiction. The thrilling seventh instalment in this remarkable story, Reaper's Gale, is now available from Bantam Press. Steven Erikson lives in Canada.
Gripping, fast-moving, delightfully dark...Erikson brings a punchy, mesmerizing writing style into the genre of epic fantasy, making an indelible impression. Utterly engrossing -- ELIZABETH HAYDON I stand slack jawed in awe of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. This masterwork of imagination may be the high watermark of epic fantasy -- GLEN COOK, author of The Black Company series This is true myth in the making, a drawing upon fantasy to recreate histories and legends as rich as any found within our culture * INTERZONE * Extraordinarily enjoyable...Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics * SALON.COM * This series has clearly established itself as the most significant work of epic fantasy since Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant * SF SITE *