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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] |
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] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. The magazine was founded by bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ... Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s, and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Fantasy Novels
High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift took or takes place * Substance intoxication, also known by the slang description "being high" * Sugar high, a misconception about the supposed psychological effects of sucrose Music Performers * High (musical group), a 1974–1990 Indian rock group * The High, an English rock band formed in 1989 Albums * ''High'' (The Blue Nile album) or the title song, 2004 * ''High'' (Flotsam and Jetsam album), 1997 * ''High'' (New Model Army album) or the title song, 2007 * ''High'' (Royal Headache album) or the title song, 2015 * ''High'' (EP), by Jarryd James, or the title song, 2016 Songs * "High" (Alison Wonderland song), 2018 * "High" (The Chainsmokers song), 2022 * "High" (The Cure song), 1992 * "High" (David Hallyday song), 1988 * "H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bantam Books Books
Bantam or Bantams may refer to: * Bantam (poultry), any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck Businesses * Bantam Books, an American publishing house * Bantam Cider, an American cider company * Bantam Press, a British publishing imprint * American Bantam, a 1935 car company, formerly American Austin Car Company Military * Bantam (military), a soldier shorter than 5'3" in the First World War ** 143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF ** 216th Battalion (Bantams), CEF * Bantam (missile), a Swedish 1950s anti-tank missile * BAT Bantam, a British 1920s biplane fighter aircraft * Northrop X-4 Bantam, an American prototype small twinjet aircraft * Douglas A-4 Skyhawk light attack aircraft, nicknamed Bantam Bomber Places * Banten (town), also written as Bantam, a port town in Java, Indonesia ** Banten Sultanate, or Bantam, 1527–1813 ** Banten, current province of Indonesia on territory of the former sultanate * Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands * Bantam, Connect ... [...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] |
2004 Canadian Novels
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant
''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'' is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson. The series began as a trilogy, entitled ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever''. This was followed by another trilogy, ''The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'', and finally a tetralogy, ''The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant''. The main character of the stories is Thomas Covenant, an embittered and cynical writer, afflicted with leprosy and shunned by society, and fated to become the heroic savior of the Land, an alternate world. In ten novels, published between 1977 and 2013, he struggles against Lord Foul, "the Despiser", who intends to escape the bondage of the physical universe and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy, "the Creator". ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever'' # ''Lord Foul's Bane'' (1977) # ''The Illearth War'' (1978; "Gilden-Fire" - first published 1981) # ''The Power that Preserves'' (1979) The story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen R
Stephen or Steven is a common English given name, first name. It is particularly significant to Christianity, Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. In English, Stephen is most commonly pronounced as ' (). The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie (given name), Stevie. The spelling as Stephen can also be pronounced which is from the Greek original version, Stephanos. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Template:Stephen-surname, Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crippled God
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 B ... [...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] |
Dust Of Dreams (novel)
''Dust of Dreams'' is the ninth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the ''Malazan Book of the Fallen''. It is the first book in the series to end on a cliffhanger, dealing with the fallout from ''Reaper's Gale'' and forms the first half of the series finale, with ''The Crippled God'' forming the second half, and being the tenth and final novel in the series. Development In a 2014 Q&A with Tor, Erikson says he considers ''Dust of Dreams'' to be the first half of a single, concluding book. Plot ''Dust of Dreams'' returns to the continent of Lether, last seen in Reaper's Gale ''Reaper's Gale'' is the seventh volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the ''Malazan Book of the Fallen ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the Canadian author Steven Eriks .... Adjunct Tavore leads the Malazan army into the Letherii Wastelands to fight against an unknown threat. Critical Reception ''Dust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
