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House Of Chains
''House of Chains'' is an epic fantasy novel by Canadian author Steven Erikson, the fourth volume of his series the ''Malazan Book of the Fallen''. It is a direct sequel to the second volume in the series, ''Deadhouse Gates''. The novel was the first in the series to be published in hardback, first appearing in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2002. A mass-market paperback edition followed on 3 October 2003. The first United States edition was a hardcover published on 22 August 2006. Plot summary The first volume of ''House of Chains'' takes place prior to the events of the previous three books. A mighty Teblor warrior named Karsa Orlong descends from his mountain fastness on Genabackis, beginning a campaign against civilisation that leads to the deaths of his brothers and his capture by the Malazan Empire. Karsa is brought to the subcontinent of Seven Cities via a slave ship, where he befriends local rebel Leoman of the Flails. The two escape the Malazans and travel to the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Erikson
Steve Rune Lundin (born October 7, 1959), known by his pseudonym Steven Erikson, is a Canadian novelist who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist. He is best known for his ten-volume spanning epic fantasy series ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'', which began with the publication of '' Gardens of the Moon'' (1999) and was completed with the publication of '' The Crippled God'' (2011). By 2012 over 1 million copies of the series had been sold worldwide, and over 3 million copies by 2018. ''SF Site'' has called the series "the most significant work of epic fantasy since Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," and ''Fantasy Book Review'' described it as "the best fantasy series of recent times." Fellow author Glen Cook has called the series a masterwork, while Stephen R. Donaldson has praised him for his approach to the fantasy genre. Set in the Malazan world, Erikson has written a prequel trilogy, '' The Kharkanas Trilogy'', seven novellas, a short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Steven Erikson
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term Romance (literary fiction), "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek novel, Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiste Edur
The following is a list of characters in the ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' epic fantasy series by Steven Erikson, as well as characters who appear in the Novels of the Malazan Empire by Ian Cameron Esslemont. The 'Appears in' column gives book names in their short form. Here is a legend ordered from oldest book to newest—''GotM'' (''Gardens of the Moon''), ''DG'' (''Deadhouse Gates''), ''MoI'' (''Memories of Ice''), ''HoC'' (''House of Chains''), ''MT'' (''Midnight Tides''), ''BH'' (''The Bonehunters''), ''RG'' (''Reaper's Gale''), ''TH'' (''Toll the Hounds''), ''DoD'' ('' Dust of Dreams''), ''CG'' (''The Crippled God''). For the Novels of the Malazan Empire—''NoK'' (''Night of Knives''), ''RotCG'' (''Return of the Crimson Guard''), ''SW'' (''Stonewielder''), ''BB'' (''Blood and Bone''), ''OST'' (''Orb Sceptre Throne ''Orb Sceptre Throne'' is the fourth fantasy novel by Canadian author Ian Cameron Esslemont set in the world of the ''Malazan Book of the Fallen ''Malazan Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Cities (Malazan)
''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the Canadian author Steven Erikson. The series, published by Bantam Books in the U.K. and Tor Books in the U.S., consists of ten volumes, beginning with ''Gardens of the Moon'' (1999) and concluding with ''The Crippled God'' (2011). Erikson's series is extremely complex with a wide scope, and presents the narratives of a large cast of characters spanning thousands of years across multiple continents. His plotting presents a complicated series of events in the world upon which the Malazan Empire is located. Each of the first five novels is relatively self-contained, in that each resolves its respective primary conflict; but many underlying characters and events are interwoven throughout the works of the series, binding it together. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genabackis
''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the Canadian author Steven Erikson. The series, published by Bantam Books in the U.K. and Tor Books in the U.S., consists of ten volumes, beginning with ''Gardens of the Moon'' (1999) and concluding with ''The Crippled God'' (2011). Erikson's series is extremely complex with a wide scope, and presents the narratives of a large cast of characters spanning thousands of years across multiple continents. His plotting presents a complicated series of events in the world upon which the Malazan Empire is located. Each of the first five novels is relatively self-contained, in that each resolves its respective primary conflict; but many underlying characters and events are interwoven throughout the works of the series, binding it together. The Malazan world was #Authorship, co-created by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont in the early 1980s as a backdrop to their GURPS roleplaying game, roleplaying campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karsa Orlong
The following is a list of characters in the '' Malazan Book of the Fallen'' epic fantasy series by Steven Erikson, as well as characters who appear in the Novels of the Malazan Empire by Ian Cameron Esslemont. The 'Appears in' column gives book names in their short form. Here is a legend ordered from oldest book to newest—''GotM'' (''Gardens of the Moon''), ''DG'' (''Deadhouse Gates''), ''MoI'' (''Memories of Ice''), ''HoC'' (''House of Chains''), ''MT'' (''Midnight Tides''), ''BH'' (''The Bonehunters''), ''RG'' (''Reaper's Gale''), ''TH'' (''Toll the Hounds''), ''DoD'' ('' Dust of Dreams''), ''CG'' (''The Crippled God''). For the Novels of the Malazan Empire—''NoK'' (''Night of Knives''), ''RotCG'' (''Return of the Crimson Guard''), ''SW'' (''Stonewielder''), ''BB'' ('' Blood and Bone''), ''OST'' (''Orb Sceptre Throne ''Orb Sceptre Throne'' is the fourth fantasy novel by Canadian author Ian Cameron Esslemont set in the world of the ''Malazan Book of the Fallen ''Malazan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadhouse Gates
''Deadhouse Gates'' is an epic fantasy novel by Canadian writer Steven Erikson, the second in his series ''Malazan Book of the Fallen''. ''Deadhouse Gates'' follows on from the first novel, ''Gardens of the Moon'', and takes place simultaneously with events in the third novel ''Memories of Ice''. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom as a trade paperback on 1 September 2000, with a mass-market paperback edition followed on 1 October 2001. The first United States edition was published in hardback by Tor Books on 28 February 2005 with a mass-market paperback edition following on 7 February 2006. This is the only novel in the series where the UK and US editions share the same cover; the other US books use a different cover artist and style. It received mixed to positive reviews, with critics praising the tones, the softer introduction, and the plot. Some critics criticized the way the book starts again in another continent. Plot introduction ''Deadhouse Gates'' opens a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Fantasy
High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.Brian Stableford, ''The A to Z of Fantasy Literature'', (p. 198), Scarecrow Press, Plymouth. 2005. The term "high fantasy" was coined by Lloyd Alexander in a 1971 essay, "High Fantasy and Heroic Romance", which was originally given at the New England Round Table of Children's Librarians in October 1969. Characteristics High fantasy is set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the "real" or "primary" world. This secondary world is usually internally consistent, but its rules differ from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set on Earth, the primary or real world, or a rational and familiar fictional world with the inclusion of magical elements. The romances of William Morris, such as ''The Well at the World's End'', set in an imaginary medieval world, are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Tides
''Midnight Tides'' is the fifth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the ''Malazan Book of the Fallen''. Although it is part of the larger series, it has only limited references to the previous books. However, it is not a stand-alone volume as the events of the books ''Reaper's Gale'' and '' Dust of Dreams'' follow on from it. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom as a hardcover on 1 March 2004, with a mass-market paperback following on 1 March 2005. The first American edition came out on 17 April 2007. Plot summary The Tiste Edur tribes are to meet with a delegation from the Kingdom of Lether to discuss a treaty. Meanwhile, the city of Lether is preparing for the fulfillment of a prophecy which states that at the Seventh Closure the King shall become Emperor. To increase his power, the Warlock King sends Trull Sengar and his brothers Fear, Binadas and Rhulad on a quest to recover a sword. When they find the sword, they are attacked by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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