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Orlion wrote:
lucimay wrote: tho erikson is finished with his 10 books comprising The Malazan Book of the Fallen, esslemont has only finished 3 of his 5.

Night of Knives (a prequel to Gardens of the Moon)
Return of the Crimson Guard (which has important info in it
regarding the Empress Laseen and probably should be read
somewhere after Bonehunters)
Stonewielder


i'm reading Stonewielder right now. :biggrin:
Don't you mean 4 of his six? ;)

Orb, Sceptre, Throne has been completed and mass market paperbacks of Stonewielder in UK have the prologue for it... I'm so jealous! :x

Oh, and the two that remain are a novel set in Jackaru and that enigmatic Assail novel.

I, too, am reading Stonewielder :biggrin:

huh? damn last i heard there was only going to be five from esselmont!
but it does say six on the malazan empire authors page! woot! :D 8)

and i really didn't realize orb, scepter, throne was that near publication!!
mid january is the most recent news on that, right?
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lucimay wrote:
Orlion wrote:
lucimay wrote: tho erikson is finished with his 10 books comprising The Malazan Book of the Fallen, esslemont has only finished 3 of his 5.

Night of Knives (a prequel to Gardens of the Moon)
Return of the Crimson Guard (which has important info in it
regarding the Empress Laseen and probably should be read
somewhere after Bonehunters)
Stonewielder


i'm reading Stonewielder right now. :biggrin:
Don't you mean 4 of his six? ;)

Orb, Sceptre, Throne has been completed and mass market paperbacks of Stonewielder in UK have the prologue for it... I'm so jealous! :x

Oh, and the two that remain are a novel set in Jackaru and that enigmatic Assail novel.

I, too, am reading Stonewielder :biggrin:

huh? damn last i heard there was only going to be five from esselmont!
but it does say six on the malazan empire authors page! woot! :D 8)

and i really didn't realize orb, scepter, throne was that near publication!!
mid january is the most recent news on that, right?
In the UK, yeah. Those who've gotten pre-orders have gotten notices twice now pushing back the dates. When checking with the local bookshop, they said the US publication date is Feb 28, but there is no street date. So there's no guarantee as of yet.
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lucimay wrote:
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Stonemaybe wrote:Only a couple of pages left of re-read of The Bonehunters, so looking forward to first read of Return of the Crimson Guard.

imho The Bonehunters are way cooler than The Bridgeburners
Well I enjoyed The Bone hunters and just finished Reapers Gale , very addictive reading ;) but whats your reference to the Crimson Guard as I havent read that yet :?:
perhaps you didn't realize that erikson is not the only author of the malazan world, cleburn?
he created the world along with a friend of his, ian cameron esselmont.
wiki wrote:The Malazan world was co-created by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont in the early 1980s as a backdrop to their *GURPS roleplaying campaign. In 2005, Esslemont began publishing his own series of five novels set in the same world, beginning with Night of Knives. Although Esslemont's books are published under a different series title - Novels of the Malazan Empire - Esslemont and Erikson collaborated on the storyline for the entire fifteen-book project and Esslemont's novels are considered as canonical and integral to the series as Erikson's own.
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tho erikson is finished with his 10 books comprising The Malazan Book of the Fallen, esslemont has only finished 3 of his 5.

Night of Knives (a prequel to Gardens of the Moon)
Return of the Crimson Guard (which has important info in it
regarding the Empress Laseen and probably should be read
somewhere after Bonehunters)
Stonewielder


i'm reading Stonewielder right now. :biggrin:
Lucimay thanks for all the info I wasnt aware of that at all .
Where does Stone wielder came in to things concerning Eriksons series :?:
I suppose i should think about getting Return of the crimson Guard seeing as I just finished Reapers gale :D
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Cleburne wrote: Lucimay thanks for all the info I wasnt aware of that at all .Where does Stone wielder came in to things concerning Eriksons series :?:I suppose i should think about getting Return of the crimson Guard seeing as I just finished Reapers gale :D
as orlion pointed out, i was remiss, there are actually going to be 6 esselmont books and the 4th (Orb, Scepter, Throne) should be out soonish (meaning in the first quarter of 2012 i think).

i think you should stop right where you are and read RotCG.
you may even want to go back and read both Night of Knives
and RotCG right now.
the events of Stonewielder occur a few months following the events
of RotCG and so, if it's your first time through the series you may
want to read all three before continuing to Toll the Hounds but totally up
to you.

here is the chronological order (by malazan world date [Burn's Sleep], NOT publication date) that the entry in wikipedia suggests (probably written by one of the uber malazan geeklets over at the malazan empire board):
Night of Knives (1154)
Midnight Tides (unknown but from internal evidence it occurs sometime during Gardens of the Moon and possibly up to ten years prior)
Gardens of the Moon (1163)
Deadhouse Gates and Memories of Ice (1163–64, these two novels occur simultaneously)
House of Chains
The Bonehunters (1164–65)
Return of the Crimson Guard (c. 1165, just after The Bonehunters)
Reaper's Gale (c. 1165 or 1166)
Toll the Hounds and Dust of Dreams (takes place simultaneously)
Stonewielder (estimated to start roughly half way through dust of dreams maybe a little later)
The Crippled God

it has been hinted to that Esslemont's next 2 or possibly 3 books will take place shortly after the events of the crippled god and serve as a epilogue to the series
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it has been hinted to that Esslemont's next 2 or possibly 3 books will take place shortly after the events of the crippled god and serve as a epilogue to the series
Dammit, my to-be-read pile is *already* teetering. :x
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Cleburne wrote: I suppose i should think about getting Return of the crimson Guard seeing as I just finished Reapers gale :D
Hell yes. Must read before TtH. Did none of us ever mention the Esselmont books to you? Damn. Sorry. :lol:

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lucimay wrote:


i think you should stop right where you are and read RotCG.
you may even want to go back and read both Night of Knives
and RotCG right now.
the events of Stonewielder occur a few months following the events
of RotCG and so, if it's your first time through the series you may
want to read all three before continuing to Toll the Hounds but totally up
to you.
;) Fantastic advice and I will take it , just hope my local Waterstones has the the first 2 books written by Esselmont , iil take a look tomorrow and go from there ,ta all ;)
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The Warded Man wasn't good enough to bother going on to the next book. Instead, I just read The Innocent Mage, Book One of Kingmaker, Kingbreaker, by Karen Miller. It really wasn't a book on its own. Extreme cliffhanger ending (involving an actual cliff), so you have to go on to see how things turn out. And it's good enough to do that. It set up the situation and all the characters very well, even if it probably could have been done just as well in less than 642 pages.
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Currently listening to Memoirs Found In A Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem.


Also, I finished AATE. Can we please have more Covenant POV in the final book?
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I've started reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Slowed down in Revelation Space, but just started reading a lot faster now--at about 340 starts to get real exciting around pg 300 right now the SHTF. This book keeps reminding me of another or maybe 2 other books, but I can't figure out what... :? Having The Judging Eye lying around is forcing me to read faster!
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Back to Threshold by Sara Douglass.
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I'm re reading the Hobbit since I'm curious how the story will be split into two halves. Now that I'm nearly done I'm as confused as ever. However I'm confident that Peter Jackson will produce two equally solid films. He's earned my trust.
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It's such a short book...no longer than one of the Rings volumes...why split it at all?

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Avatar wrote:It's such a short book...no longer than one of the Rings volumes...why split it at all?

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Miéville's Kraken. Needed something with absolutely no bishounen half-elves, disco ball dragons, Thor rip-offs, or Tolkien hacks in it.
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Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede. I'm trying hard to like it. She's taken pains to have the characters speak in Elizabethan English, but the (third person) narrative is in modern English -- the effect is a little jarring.
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Murrin wrote:
Avatar wrote:It's such a short book...no longer than one of the Rings volumes...why split it at all?

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