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Deadhouse Gates
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  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409083139
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 944

Deadhouse Gates

Malazan Book of the Fallen 2

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Paperback
19 Nov 2024
EBook
1 May 2010
Audiobook
3 Jan 2019
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Now reissued in a uniform B format paperback edition for the first time, the second chapter in Steven Erikson's epic, genre-defining The Malazan Book of the Fallen - 'arguably the best fantasy series ever written.'

'This masterwork of the imagination may be the high watermark of epic fantasy.' Glen Cook

'This is true myth in the making, a drawing upon fantasy to recreate histories and legends as rich as any found within our culture' Interzone

In the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind.

Enslaved in the Otataral mines, Felisin - youngest scion of the disgraced House of Paran - dreams of freedom and vows revenge.

The outlawed Bridgeburners Fiddler and Kalam conspire to rid the world of the Empress Laseen - although it seems the gods would, as always, have it otherwise.

And as two ancient warriors - bearers of a devastating secret - enter this blighted land, so an untried commander of the Malaz 7th Army leads his war-weary troops in a last, valiant running battle to save the lives of thirty thousand refugees.

In this thrilling second chapter in the epic story of the Malazan empire, war and betrayal, intrigue and roiling magic collide, shaping destinies and giving birth to legends . . .

'One of the best fantasy novels of the year.' SF Site

'Arguably the best fantasy series ever written.' Fantasy Book Review
  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409083139
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 944

About the author

Steven Erikson

Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson is the bestselling author of the genre-defining The Malazan Book of the Fallen, a multi-volume fantasy that’s been hailed ‘a masterwork of the imagination’ and one of the top ten fantasy series of all time. The first novel in the sequence, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award. He has written several novellas set in the same world. Forge of Darkness was the first Kharkanas novel, taking readers back to the origins of what would become the Malazan Empire; Fall of Light continued this momentous tale.
A lifelong science fiction reader, he’s written a trilogy that affectionately parodies a long-running television series as well as Rejoice!, a story of first contact.
Set in the world of the Malazan Empire, ten years after the events recounted in The Crippled God, The God is Not Willing heralded the start of a thrilling new series – The Tales of Witness. No Life Forsaken is the second Tale in this epic adventure.
Steven Erikson lives in Victoria, Canada. To find out more, look for him on Facebook: Steven Erikson – Author

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Also by Steven Erikson

Gardens Of The Moon
Midnight Tides
No Life Forsaken
The God is Not Willing
The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach
Fall of Light
Willful Child
See all

Praise for Deadhouse Gates

Arguably the best fantasy series ever written. This is of course subject to personal opinion . . . but few can deny that the quality and ambition of the ten books that make up The Malazan Book of the Fallen are unmatched within the genre

FANTASY BOOK REVIEW

Reading The Malazan Book of the Fallen . . . is the most masterful piece of fiction I have ever read. It has single-handedly changed everything we thought we knew about fantasy literature and redefined what is possible

SF SITE

Erikson's magnum opus, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, sits in pole position as the very best and most ambitious epic fantasy saga ever written

FANTASY HOTLIST

A meticulously realised otherworld...ambitious and scrupulously crafted

SFX

A world of evocative magic, brutal warfare and poetry unlike anything I'd read before...the publication of a second novel is always a tense time - was the author a one hit wonder? Fortunately for us, Deadhouse Gates triumphantly proves that this is not the case for Steve Erikson

OUTLAND

Erikson afflicts me with awe...his work does something that only the rarest of books can manage: it alters the reader's perceptions of reality

Stephen R Donaldson

If you're looking for a low calorie dish of light fantasy, this ain't it. If you're looking for a nine-course riot of taste and texture, exotically spiced to make your eyes water, your heart pump faster and your brain do cartwheels inside your cranium, I know a great little Thai place. Or, if you want something analogous to that in your reading, stop at the 'Es' and pick up the latest from Steven Erikson...I can safely say that Deadhouse Gates is one of the best fantasy novels of 2000

Neil Walsh, SF Site