About the Author

Steven Erikson is an archaeologist and anthropologist and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His Malazan Book of the Fallen series, including The Crippled God, Dust of Dreams, Toll the Hounds, and Reaper's Gale, have met with widespread international acclaim and established him as a major voice in the world of fantasy fiction. The first book in the series, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award. The second novel, Deadhouse Gates, was voted one of the ten best fantasy novels of 2000 by SF Site. He lives in Canada.

Reviews

Praise for Steven Erikson
"Erikson ranks near the top of the epic fantasy pantheon."--"Publishers Weekly, " starred review
"Erikson has no peer when it comes to action and imagination."--SF Site
"A multilayered tale of magic and war, loyalty and betrayal. Complexly drawn characters occupy a richly detailed world in this panoramic saga."--"Library Journal
""The kind of epic narrative that will have you scrambling for more."
--Stephen R. Donaldson "Erikson [has a] particular combination of lush description, sharp dialogue, and fantastical, grand imagination." --"Publishers Weekly
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"Wonderful and intimately evoked... A writer of real imaginative force and breadth."
--"The Times Literary Supplement" on "This River Awakens
""Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics."
--Salon.com
"Erikson has no peer when it comes to action and imagination, and joins the ranks of Tolkien and Donaldson in his mythic vision and perhaps then goes one better." --"SF Site"

Praise for Steven Erikson

"Erikson ranks near the top of the epic fantasy pantheon."--"Publishers Weekly, " starred review

"Erikson has no peer when it comes to action and imagination."--SF Site

"A multilayered tale of magic and war, loyalty and betrayal. Complexly drawn characters occupy a richly detailed world in this panoramic saga."--"Library Journal

""The kind of epic narrative that will have you scrambling for more."
--Stephen R. Donaldson "Erikson [has a] particular combination of lush description, sharp dialogue, and fantastical, grand imagination." --"Publishers Weekly
"
"Wonderful and intimately evoked... A writer of real imaginative force and breadth."
--"The Times Literary Supplement" on "This River Awakens

""Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics."
--Salon.com

"Erikson has no peer when it comes to action and imagination, and joins the ranks of Tolkien and Donaldson in his mythic vision and perhaps then goes one better." --"SF Site"