New Releases by Steven ERIKSON

Endless training, gruelling marches, and the frenzy of battle against more enemies than can be counted - such is the life of a marine in the Malazan Empire. Year by year, month by month, week by week, day by day, moment by moment. Skills are honed to deadly precision, the secret language of the soldier in a world drowning in perpetual discontent, the eternal conflict against the fates. And we should forget the seemingly inevitable interference of mischievous gods and more often than not, the resurrected remains of ancient and once believed long-dead entities. As a new holy war starts sparked in the fire-blackened cauldron of Seven Cities, the Fifth and Sixth squads are about to embark a mission they don't want for a cause they don't care about. Not that anybody asked their opinion. They can only hope that their objective isn't as hopeless as it seems, and that they aren't simply being used as pawns - a strategic sacrifice, if you will, in the machinations of their betters. So what's life like as a marine in the Malazan Army? Well, let's see, shall we . . .

Among the ashes of a failed rebellion in Seven Cities, new embers are flaring to life... There are furrowed brows at the beleaguered Malazan Legion headquarters in G'danisban for it would appear that yet another bloody clash with the newly resurgent cult of the Apocalyptic is coming to a head. Fist Arenfall is eager to crush the uprising before it can ignite the entire subcontinent, but he has only a few dozen squads of marines at his disposal, and many of those have already been dispersed in a desperate bid to stamp out multiple brush-fires of dissent. Plus his soldiers are exhausted, worn down by the relentless grind of containing a simmering insurrection. So the last thing the Fist needs is the arrival - fresh from the capital and the Emperor's side - of a new Adjunct. Now the man's mission could well be to lend support to Arenfall's efforts... or it may be to stick a knife in his back. 'Twas ever thus, of course. That a good and popular commander should inevitably be perceived as a threat to the Emperor - such is the generally fatal nature of imperial Malazan politics. And what of the gods? Well, as recent history has proved, their solution to any mortal mess is to make it even messier. In other words, it's just another tumultuous day in the chequered history of the Malazan Empire.

V Genabakis to vře. Na jihu roste hrozba Pannionského dominia. Záhadný věštec rozdmýchává nenávist těch nejchudších a hladovějících a vede jejich nekonečné zástupy do války proti všem. Táhnou na sever a za nimi zůstává spálená země a ohlodané lidské kosti. Zdá se, že není, kdo by se fanatickým davům postavil a zarazil jejich děsivý příliv. Dujek Jednoruký a jeho malazská armáda se po bitvě o Dřevnov stali v očích císařovny Laseen nepohodlnými a jsou postaveni mimo zákon. Přesto si jasně uvědomují hrozbu Pannionského věštce a hledají spojence proti jeho říši kanibalů. Musejí uzavřít křehkou alianci s bývalými nepřáteli, se silami Kaladana Chmura, Anomanderem Rekem a lidem Rhivů z plání. Nikdo však neví, zda toto křehké spojenectví bude dostatečně silné, aby odolalo probouzejícím se hrůzám minulosti... V této bouřlivé době povstaly i prastaré klany nemrtvých T''lan Imass, poslušné volání nové kostějky. Zdá se však, že svět ohrožuje něco zlovolného a mnohem temnějšího – Chromý bůh se snad zbavil okovů a prahne po strašlivé pomstě.

New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson continues the beloved Malazan Book of the Fallen with this first book in the thrilling Witness sequel trilogy, The God is Not Willing. Many years have passed since three warriors brought carnage and chaos to Silver Lake. Now the tribes of the north no longer venture into the southlands. The town has recovered and yet the legacy remains. Responding to reports of a growing unease among the tribes beyond the border, the Malazan army marches on the new god’s people. They aren''t quite sure what they''re going to be facing. And in those high mountains, a new warleader has risen amongst the Teblor. Scarred by the deeds of Karsa Orlong, he intends to confront his god even if he has to cut a bloody swathe through the Malazan Empire to do so. Further north, a new threat has emerged and now it seems it is the Teblor who are running out of time. Another long-feared migration is about to begin and this time it won''t just be three warriors. No, this time tens of thousands are poised to pour into the lands to the south. And in their way, a single company of Malazan marines . . .

El décimo y último volumen, inédito en español, de una de las mejores sagas de fantasía de las últimas décadas. El Dios Tullido cierra la épica decalogía Malaz: El Libro de los Caídos, una obra maestra de la imaginación que ha convertido al escritor canadiense Steven Erikson en una de las mayores voces de la fantasía contemporánea. Masacrados por los k''chain nah''ruk, los Cazahuesos marchan hacia Kolanse, donde les aguarda un destino desconocido. El ejército está al filo del motín, pero la consejera Tavore no cede. Queda un acto final. Tavore pretende desafiar a los dioses, pero sus tropas pueden matarla a ella antes. Los forkrul assail esperan a Tavore y a sus aliados; son los árbitros finales de la humanidad. Ansían aniquilar a todos los humanos para comenzar de nuevo. En el reino de Kurald Galain, una muchedumbre de refugiados se reúne en la Primera Orilla. Liderados por Yedan Derryg, esperan la fractura de Cascada de Luz y la llegada de los tiste liosan. Es una guerra que no pueden ganar, y morirán en nombre de una ciudad vacía y de una reina sin súbditos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The climax to the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen series that will determine how the world is ruled. Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods – if her own troops don''t kill her first. Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will rise as a force of devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world.

El décimo y último volumen, inédito en español, de una de las mejores sagas de fantasía de las últimas décadas. El Dios Tullido cierra la épica decalogía Malaz: El Libro de los Caídos, una obra maestra de la imaginación que ha convertido al escritor canadiense Steven Erikson en una de las mayores voces de la fantasía contemporánea. Masacrados por los k''chain nah''ruk, los Cazahuesos marchan hacia Kolanse, donde les aguarda un destino desconocido. El ejército está al filo del motín, pero la consejera Tavore no cede. Queda un acto final. Tavore pretende desafiar a los dioses, pero sus tropas pueden matarla a ella antes. Los forkrul assail esperan a Tavore y a sus aliados; son los árbitros finales de la humanidad. Ansían aniquilar a todos los humanos para comenzar de nuevo. En el reino de Kurald Galain, una muchedumbre de refugiados se reúne en la Primera Orilla. Liderados por Yedan Derryg, esperan la fractura de Cascada de Luz y la llegada de los tiste liosan. Es una guerra que no pueden ganar, y morirán en nombre de una ciudad vacía y de una reina sin súbditos.

The intrepid necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach - scourges of civilization, raisers of the dead, reapers of the souls of the living, devourers of hope, betrayers of faith, slayers of the innocent and modest personifications of evil - have a lot to answer for and answer they will, but first they must lie, murder and cheat their way through three more escapades in some of the harsher fringes, deprived wastelands and impoverished communities of the Malazan Empire. Much to the shame of their long-suffering general factotum, Emancipoor Reese... Here then - for readers'' delectation and entertainment - are those escapades, namely the novellas The Wurms of Blearmouth, The Crack''d Pot Trail and The Fiends of Nightmaria . . .

Las puertas de la Casa de la Muerte es el segundo volumen de la saga «Malaz: El Libro de los Caídos», decalogía originalmente publicada entre 1999 y 2011 que ya es considerada una de las series más ambiciosas del género y que ha convertido al escritor canadiense Steven Erikson en una de las mayores voces de la fantasía épica contemporánea. Debilitado por los acontecimientos en Darujhistan, el Imperio de Malaz se halla al borde de la anarquía. En el vasto dominio de las Siete Ciudades, en el desierto Santo Raraku, la vidente Sha''ik y sus seguidores se preparan para el Torbellino, la sublevación profetizada desde hace mucho tiempo. Será un brote de fanatismo que envolverá al imperio en un salvajismo y una sed de sangre sin precedentes. Estallará uno de los conflictos más sangrientos de su historia y surgirán nuevos destinos y leyendas... En las minas de otaralita, Felisin sueña con vengarse de su hermana, que la condenó a una vida de esclava. Los ahora-proscritos Abrasapuentes, Violín y el asesino Kalam han jurado devolver a Apsalar a su patria y matar a la emperatriz Laseen. Mientras tanto, Coltaine, el carismático comandante malazano, conduce a sus soldados a una última batalla para salvar la vida de treinta mil refugiados. Y a esa tierra arruinada llegan dos viejos conocidos, Mappo y el jaghut Icarium, portadores de un secreto devastador que amenaza con liberarse de sus cadenas... Reseñas: «Las novelas de Erikson han redefinido la épica.» Interzone «Uno de los escritores más prometedores de los últimos años.» Bookseller «En acción e inventiva nadie supera a Erikson.» SF Site

"“Verdadeiramente épico. Erikson não tem igual quando o assunto é ação e imaginação, e sua visão mítica é equiparável à de nomes como Tolkien.” – SF Site “Em termos de construção de universo e ambição narrativa, O Livro Malazano dos Caídos é talvez a série mais significativa da última década.” – Boston Globe Desde pequeno, Ganoes Paran decidiu trocar os privilégios da nobreza malazana por uma vida a serviço do exército imperial. O que o jovem capitão não sabia, porém, era que seu destino acabaria entrelaçado aos desígnios dos deuses, e que ele seria praticamente arremessado ao centro de um dos maiores conflitos que o Império Malazano já tinha visto. Paran é enviado a Darujhistan, a última entre as Cidades Livres de Genabackis, onde deve assumir o comando dos Queimadores de Pontes, um lendário esquadrão de elite. O local ainda resiste à ocupação malazana e é a joia cobiçada pela imperatriz Laseen, que não está disposta a estancar o derramamento de sangue enquanto não conquistá-lo. Porém, em pouco tempo fica claro que essa não será uma campanha militar comum: na Cidade do Fogo Azul não está em jogo apenas o futuro do Império Malazano, mas estão envolvidos também deuses ancestrais, criaturas das sombras e uma magia de poder inimaginável. Em Jardins da lua, Steven Erikson nos apresenta um universo complexo de cenários estonteantes e ações vertiginosas que mostram por que esta é considerada uma das maiores sagas épicas."

From New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson comes Willful Child: Wrath of Betty, a new Science Fiction novel of devil-may-care, near calamitous, and downright chaotic adventures through the infinite vastness of interstellar space. These are the voyages of the starship A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life-forms, to boldly blow the... And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew on board the Starship Willful Child. The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen series has taken his lifelong passion for Star Trek and transformed it into a smart, inventive, and hugely entertaining spoof on the whole mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-high-tech-gadgets-along-the-way, overblown adventure. The result is an Science Fiction novel that deftly parodies the genre while also paying fond homage to it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

It is a bitter winter and civil war now ravages Kurald Galain, as Urusander's Legion prepares to march upon the city of Kharkanas. The rebels' only opposition lies scattered, bereft of a leader since Anomander's departure. The last brother remaining, Silchas Ruin, rules in Anomander's stead. He seeks to gather the Houseblades of the Highborn Noble families and resurrect the Hust Legion in the southlands, but is fast running out of time. The officers and leaders of Urusander's Legion, led by Hunn Raal, want the Consort, Draconus, cast aside and Vatha Urusander wedded to Mother Dark, taking his place on a throne at the side of the Living Goddess. But this union will be far more than political, as a sorcerous power has claimed those opposing Mother Dark - given form by the exiled High Priestess Syntara, the Cult of Light rises in answer to Mother Dark and her Children

A new novella from New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson, set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Wurms of Blearmouth. Tyranny comes in many guises, and tyrants thrive in palaces and one-room hovels, in back alleys and playgrounds. Tyrants abound on the verges of civilization, where disorder frays the rule of civil conduct and propriety surrenders to brutal imposition. Millions are made to kneel and yet more millions die horrible deaths in a welter of suffering and misery. But leave all that behind and plunge into escapist fantasy of the most irrelevant kind, and in the ragged wake of the tale told in Lees of Laughter''s End, those most civil adventurers, Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, along with their suitably phlegmatic manservant, Emancipor Reese, make gentle landing upon a peaceful beach, beneath a quaint village at the foot of a majestic castle. There they make acquaintance with the soft-hearted and generous folk of Spendrugle, which lies at the mouth of the Blear River and falls under the benign rule of the Lord of Wurms in his lovely keep. Make welcome, then, to Spendrugle''s memorable residents, including the man who should have stayed dead, the woman whose prayers should never have been answered, the tax collector everyone ignores, the ex-husband town militiaman who never married, the beachcomber who lives in his own beard, and the now singular lizard cat who used to be plural, and the girl who likes to pee in your lap. And of course, hovering over all, the denizen of the castle keep, Lord—Ah, but there lies this tale. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

La rebelión de Siete Ciudades ha sido aplastada. Queda una última fuerza rebelde oculta en la ciudad de Y’Ghatan bajo el mando fanático de Leoman de los Mayales. La perspectiva de sitiar esta antigua fortaleza inquieta al agotado Decimocuarto Ejército de Malaz. Fue allí donde cayó asesinado el mejor paladín del Imperio y se derramó una marea de sangre malazana. Pero eso no es más que una distracción. Hay agentes de un conflicto mucho mayor que ya han empezado a hacer sus primeros movimientos. Al dios Tullido se le ha concedido un lugar en el panteón y amenaza con abrirse un cisma. Hay que elegir bando. Pero decida lo que decida cada dios, las reglas han cambiado, y la primera sangre que caerá será en el mundo de los mortales...

Now is the time to tell the story of an ancient realm, a tragic tale that sets the stage for all the tales yet to come and all those already told... It''s a conflicted time in Kurald Galain, the realm of Darkness, where Mother Dark reigns. But this ancient land was once home to many a power. and even death is not quite eternal. The commoners'' great hero, Vatha Urusander, is being promoted by his followers to take Mother Dark''s hand in marriage, but her Consort, Lord Draconus, stands in the way of such ambitions. The impending clash sends fissures throughout the realm, and as the rumors of civil war burn through the masses, an ancient power emerges from the long dead seas. Caught in the middle of it all are the First Sons of Darkness, Anomander, Andarist, and Silchas Ruin of the Purake Hold... Steven Erikson entered the pantheon of great fantasy writers with his debut Gardens of the Moon. Now he returns with the first novel in a trilogy that takes place millennia before the events of the Malazan Book of the Fallen and introduces readers to Kurald Galain, the warren of Darkness. It is the epic story of a realm whose fate plays a crucial role in shaping the world of the Malazan Empire. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Das Jahr des Wirbelwinds, des lange prophezeiten großen Aufruhrs, ist angebrochen und erschüttert das Reich der Sieben Städte in seinen Grundfesten. Die Seherin Sha ́ik sammelt ihre Armee um sich, das ganze Land rebelliert gegen das Joch der malazanischen Eroberer, und inmitten dieses chaotischen Hexenkessels versucht der unerfahrene Kommandant Coltaine mit seinen Leuten verzweifelt, eine vieltausendköpfige Flüchtlingstruppe in Sicherheit zu bringen. Doch während die erschöpften malazanischen Soldaten um das Leben ihrer Schützlinge kämpfen, erfüllt sich in der heiligen Wüste Raraku das Schicksal der jungen Felisin - und das jenes uralten Wanderers, der ein schreckliches Geheimnis hütet, dessen Enthüllung katastrophale Folgen haben könnte.

Ein sinfonisches Epos ohnegleichen - Fantasy einer neuen Qualität! Das malazanische Imperium ist bis ins Mark erschüttert, doch Imperatrix Laseen sucht ihre Macht mit einer Säuberungswelle im Adel zu festigen. Da braut sich neues Unheil zusammen. Denn in der heiligen Wüste Raraku sammelt die Seherin Sha'ik ein Herr der Unzufriedenen, die nur darauf warten, die verhassten malazanischen Eroberer zu vertreiben.

Das mächtige Königreich Lether erleidet im Krieg gegen die Stämme der Tiste Edur eine Niederlage nach der anderen. Und während sich die feindlichen Truppen unaufhaltsam der Hauptstadt Letheras nähern, erwachen dort uralte finstere Mächte zu neuem Leben ... Ein furioses Fantasy-Epos von einer dunklen Anderswelt!

The climax to the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen series that will determine how the world is ruled. Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods – if her own troops don''t kill her first. Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will rise as a force of devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Prach snů, devátá kniha z fantasy série malazská Kniha padlých. Ve válce prohrává každý. Tuto krutou pravdu lze spatřit v očích každého vojáka na každém světě. Do vyhnanství vypovězené malazské vojsko pod velením pobočnice Tavore se vydává z Lederu na východ přes Pustiny, kde má bojovat za neznámou věc s nepřítelem, jehož ještě nikdy nevidělo. Na osud, jaký čeká Lovce kostí, není žádný voják připraven a nedokáže mu vzdorovat žádná smrtelná duše - jejich epřítelem je nejistota a jedinou zbraní proti ní je umíněná odvaha. Poslední velké vojsko Malazské říše je odhodláno k poslednímu hrdinskému boji ve jménu vykoupení. Mohou však být skutky hrdinské, když je nikdo nevidí? A může skutek, který nikdo nevidí, navždycky změnit svět? Osudy jsou zřídkakdy jednoduché, pravda nikdy není jasná, a jedinou jistotou je, že čas nikdy není na vaší straně. Karty z balíčku draků byly vyloženy, a přitom byla vypuštěna děsivá síla, již nikdo nechápe. Odpovědi na Lovce kostí čekají za Pustinami.

In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every world... In Letherii, the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen. And in these same Wastelands, others gather to confront their destinies. The warlike Barghast, thwarted in their vengeance against the Tiste Edur, seek new enemies beyond the border and Onos Toolan, once immortal T''lan Imass now mortal commander of the White Face clan, faces insurrection. To the south, the Perish Grey Helms parlay passage through the treacherous kingdom of Bolkando. Their intention is to rendezvous with the Bonehunters but their vow of allegiance to the Malazans will be sorely tested. And ancient enclaves of an Elder Race are in search of salvation—not among their own kind, but among humans—as an old enemy draws ever closer to the last surviving bastion of the K''Chain Che''Malle. So this last great army of the Malazan Empire is resolved to make one final defiant, heroic stand in the name of redemption. But can deeds be heroic when there is no one to witness them? And can that which is not witnessed forever change the world? Destines are rarely simple, truths never clear but one certainty is that time is on no one''s side. For the Deck of Dragons has been read, unleashing a dread power that none can comprehend... In a faraway land and beneath indifferent skies, the final chapter of ‘The Malazan Book of the Fallen'' has begun... At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

'Fantasy cliches are dodged or given new twists; the narrative teems with clever invention . . . the writing is excellent' SFX ___ In Darujhistan, the saying goes that Love and Death shall arrive together, dancing... It is summer and the heat is oppressive, yet the discomfiture of the small rotund man in the faded red waistcoat is not entirely due to the sun. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city's streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways but it seems the hunters have become the hunted. Strangers have arrived, and while the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds. All is palpably not well. And in Black Coral too something is afoot. Memories of ancient crimes surface, clamouring for revenge and Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong. And so it would seem that Love and Death are indeed about to make their entrance... This is epic fantasy at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most exciting. ___ What readers are saying: ***** 'Epic action and breathless tension' ***** 'Dark and compelling . . . it was really hard to put down' ***** 'Innovative, unexpected . . . filled with laugh out loud humour, but also terribly poignant'