2207:- "I've waited over twenty years for a postmodern/poststructural analytical discussion of my series. In fact, I'd just about given up hope that these elements would ever be noticed (how many students of philosophy read Epic Fantasy? Well, at least one!). I was lucky in that my initial foray into fiction writing (a Creative Writing program at the University of Victoria) was in the midst of the Magic Realist movement in literature, which as you know is explicitly deconstructed in terms of narrative reliability, while also openly challenging notions of objective reality. Magic Realism of course is deeply connected, philosophically, with Existentialism (made metamorphic beneath tyrannical polities), and all of this led, in a roundabout way, to metafiction. Alas, most metafiction struck me as too obvious, and I remembered wondering, way back then, if there was a way to make metafiction subtle. Then I began to wonder if one could make metafiction a hidden meta-narrative embracing a postmodern, poststructural story. Turns out, the answer is yes, as epitomized in the Malazan Book of the Fallen (the cipher unlocking the metafictional element to the series is found in Toll the Hounds). But for me, all of that was just me grappling with a growing uncertainty regarding almost everything, making the process of writing the series a kind of dialectic, not only between me and myself, but also between realities: ours here on Earth, and that other one being a made-up Malazan world."
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plotlines, characters and various settings that
Erickson presents to us." Reading Erikson's "The Malazan Book of the Fallen" might be "the most challenging literary trial" a reader has ever tried, yet "the payoff is too enormous to ignore and well worth taking on the endeavor. Steven Erikson doesn't spoon feed his readers. He forces you to question and think on a level that very few authors would even dare for fear of finding and perhaps losing an audience."
1271:, an extensive guide to the series, which was to be published following the last novel in the main sequence. In an interview on a later date, however, he mentioned talks underway with an RPG 20D group to produce a game adapted from the Malazan universe, in which case the maps and notes created by Erikson and Esslemont would be released through installments or expansions rather than through the publishing of an encyclopedia.
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Erikson for his approach to the fantasy genre, the subversion of classical tropes, the complex characterizations, the social commentary — pointing explicitly to parallels between the fictional Letheras Economy and the US Economy — and has compared him to the likes of
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The Path to
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roleplaying games ... As my own gaming experience advanced, it was not long before I abandoned those tropes ... Accordingly, my influences in terms of fiction are post-Tolkien, and they came from conscious responses to
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Novels of the Malazan Empire is a six-part novel series written by
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Ian Cameron Esslemont wrote the Novels series from 2004 to 2014.
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Steven Erikson's Signature in Deadhouse Gates, Sub Press Edition
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Canavan, A.P. "Steven Erikson: More Than Meets the Eye".
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Malazan: A Postmodern Critique of the Fantasy Genre
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The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Volume 2
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1835:"Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson"
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2370:"The SF Site Featured Review: Midnight Tides"
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1618:"Reviews - Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson"
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1591:"Steven Erikson's TOLL THE HOUNDS cover art"
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1536:"The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson"
1507:Erikson, Steven (28 October 2020).
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2109:Bandstra, Matt (22 October 2018).
1783:. 21 November 2017. Archived from
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1944:Interview with Steven Erikson in
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1750:SageOfTheWise (5 December 2017).
387:The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
2343:Leonard, Andrew (21 June 2004).
2296:"The Malazan Book of the Fallen"
2088:. Cambridge Collections Online.
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1644:(2007). "Preface to the
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2294:Cilli, Dominic (2011).
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1286:In a general review of
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440:Approximate Word Count
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2657:Forge of the High Mage
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1037:Path to Ascendancy #5
984:Path to Ascendancy #4
980:Forge of the High Mage
958:The God is Not Willing
924:Path to Ascendancy #3
903:Path to Ascendancy #2
346:by Steven Erikson and
184:1 April 1999 – present
2595:The Kharkanas Trilogy
1595:Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
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1319:The Lord of the Rings
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861:Path to Ascendancy #1
348:Ian Cameron Esslemont
249:The Kharkanas Trilogy
1787:on 23 November 2017.
1427:Stephen R. Donaldson
1234:. By 1986, when the
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2465:Gardens of the Moon
1797:Wordcount based on
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1413:Critical reception
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750:Orb Sceptre Throne
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1872:on 9 January 2016
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1659:978-0-553-81957-1
1597:. 16 January 2008
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919:Kellanved's Reach
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898:Deadhouse Landing
868:25 February 2016
790:Forge of Darkness
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761:20 February 2012
740:15 February 2011
719:25 November 2010
573:1 September 2004
487:1 September 2000
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