New Releases by Steven Erikson

A truly epic fantasy series that has confirmed its author as one of the most original and exciting genre storytellers in years. Erikson’s ‘Malazan Book of the Fallen’ has been recognised the world-over by writers, critics and fans alike — in a recent review of The Bonehunters, the sixth chapter in this remarkable tale, the UK’s Interzone magazine hailed it ‘a masterpiece’ and ‘the benchmark for all future works in the field’, while the hugely influential genre website, Ottawa-based SF Site, declared ‘this series has clearly established itself as the most significant work of epic fantasy since Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant’. Now comes Reaper’s Gale — the seventh Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen — and neither Erikson nor the excitement are showing any sign of letting up. Mauled and now cut adrift by the Malazan Empire, Tavore and her now infamous 14th army have landed on the coast of a strange, unknown continent and find themselves facing an even more dangerous enemy: the Tiste Edur, a nightmarish empire pledged to serve the Crippled God… A brutal, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, this is fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most thrilling.

V rozlehlé Malazské říši to vře, podrobené státy téměř vykrvácely během dlouhých let nekonečných válek, čistek a bratrovražedných bojů, a také při srážkách s pánem Měsíčního Kamene. Císařovna Laseen však dál vládne tvrdou rukou s pomocí svých obávaných asasínů. Nyní svůj nenasytný zrak upřela na Darúdžistán, poslední ze Svobodných měst Genabakis, starobylou a ušlechtilou baštu nezávislosti, která ještě vzdoruje. Nicméně říše není jediným hráčem v této hře. Svůj první tah ze stínů učinila ještě zlověstnější síla... Tato skvěle vymyšlená epická sága je zasazená do dokonale ztvárněného světa a uvádí do říše fantasy literatury nový zajímavý hlas. Přináší chytrou a napínavou zápletku, temnou a složitou mytologii, divokou a vrtošivou magii a houf přesvědčivě napsaných postav.

The sixth volume in Eriksons truly epic fantasy sequence begins as The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Dogged by self-doubt and ill omens, the 14th Army must lay siege to the city, and Adjunct Tavore must seek to outwit Leoman of the Flails, the deadliest foe she has ever faced.

The Seven Cities Rebellion is over, Sha''ik is dead, but a last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y''Ghatan under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy - for it was here that the Empire''s greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled... But agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a schism threatens, sides must be chosen but whatever each god decides, the rules have changed - and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world: a world in which a host of characters, familiar and new, search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. But gods are disinclined to be kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And the prize? Nothing less than existence itself...

Things are going all too well in the city of Quaint. So well, in fact, that something has to be done. The zeal for goodness can be catastrophic, and no-one knows this better than Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, two stalwart champions of all things bad. For the innumerable citizens of Quaint, driven to neurotic distraction and overwhelmed with good living, desperation breeds nefarious bed-mates, and before long the two homicidal necromancers — and their beleaguered and substance-addled manservant, Emancipor Reese — find themselves ensnared in a scheme to bring goodness into disrepute, if not utter ruination. To Reese''s bemusement, laudable motivations are, in a bizarre twist, uncharacteristically relevant to Master Bauchelain, although, of course, the payment of a chest filled with gold helps. Even so, sometimes, it turns out, one must bring down civilization... in the name of civilization. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Marking the return of many characters from "Gardens of the Moon" and introducing a host of remarkable new players, this novel is both a momentous new chapter in Erikson''s magnificent epic fantasy and a triumph of storytelling.

After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur have finally united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of the Hiroth. But peace has been exacted at a terrible price — a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether has devoured all of its less-civilised neighbours with rapacious, cold-blooded hunger. All, that is, save one — the Tiste Edur. For Lether is approaching a long-prophesied renaissance — from kingdom and lost colony of the First Empire to Empire reborn. And so its people have fixed their avid gazes northward, to the rich and abundant lands and coasts of the Tiste Edur. And beneath the suffocating weight of gold, or by slaughter at the edge of a sword, it seems the Tiste Edur must fall. Or so Destiny has decreed. War and betrayal, magic and myth collide in this, the stunning fifth chapter in Steven Erikson’s magnificent Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence — a monumental achievement that is being hailed by readers and critics alike as an epic of the imagination and a fantasy classic in the making.

Tracked by a growing global audience of online subversives and electronic muckers, a lone anthropologist wanders the deadlands, recording observations that threaten to bring the world''s powers to their knees.

In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha

Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, "Gardens of the Moon" is epic fantasy of the highest order--an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice.

The desert has overtaken Los Angeles and buried its freeways, and a strange darkness has flooded Europe and set its streets on fire-and a young woman''s face, a misbegotten childhood in a Parisian brothel, and the fragment of a lost movie masterpiece are the only clues in a man''s search for his past.

Prima parte din CRONICILE MALAZANE (The Malazan Book of the Fallen) Forte oculte creaturi din puternice rase ancestrale si povesti incalcite se intalnesc intr-o saga fantasy care a cucerit milioane de cititori. Imperiul Malazan fierbe din pricina nemultumirilor iar legiunile sunt insetate de razbunare. Numai orasul Darujhistan rezista. Sergentul Whiskeyjack si brigada Arzatorilor de Poduri primesc o misiune sinucigasa pentru a cuceri metropola in numele Malazanului. „Calatorii uluitoare o groaza de demoni si zei… densitate si complexitate… o lectura ce-ti aduce mari satisfactii.“ Locus „Steven Erikson este un scriitor extraordinar… Sfatul meu pentru oricine ma asculta este sa se delecteze cu Gradinile Lunii.“ Stephen Donaldson „Dati-mi evocarea unei lumi bogate si complexe dar care nu poate fi cunoscuta cu trimiteri la istorii mitologii si stiinte oculte complicate. Dati-mi mister presarat intr-o naratiune mareata… Dati-mi lumea in care fiecare mare ascunde o Atlantida faramitata fiecare ruina are de spus o poveste fiecare spada franta e mostenirea tacita a unor lupte necunoscute. Dati-mi cu alte cuvinte romanele fantasy ale lui Steven Erikson… maestru al epocilor pierdute si uitate tesator de epopei stravechi.“ Salon.com „Creator de adevarate epopei ca intindere Erikson nu are egal cand e vorba de actiune si imaginatie si i se alatura lui Tolkien si lui Donaldson prin viziunea lui mitica daca nu cumva chiar urca o treapta mai sus.“ SF Site „Rar e scriitorul care combina cu atata usurinta simtul puterii mitice si profunzimea unei lumi cu personaje perfect realizate si actiune incitanta dar lui Steven Erikson ii reuseste acest lucru intr-un stil spectaculos.“ Michael A. Stackpole