Deadhouse Gates
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  • Published: 19 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804995556
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 944
  • RRP: $27.99
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Deadhouse Gates

Malazan Book of the Fallen 2

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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: 19 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804995556
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 944
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

About the author

Steven Erikson

Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson
is the author of the landmark, multi-volume epic fantasy, ‘The Malazan Book of the Fallen’, which has been hailed ‘a masterwork of the imagination’. The first novel in this astonishing ten-book series, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. He has also written a number of novellas set in the same world. Forge of Darkness begins the Kharkanas Trilogy – a series which takes readers back to the origins of the Malazan world - and Fall of Light continues this epic tale. A lifelong science fiction reader, he has also written fiction affectionately parodying a long-running SF TV series and, most recently, a novel of first contact, Rejoice! Steven Erikson lives in Victoria, Canada.

portrait photo of Steven Erikson

Also by Steven Erikson

Gardens Of The Moon
Midnight Tides
The Bonehunters
The Crippled God
Toll The Hounds
No Life Forsaken
The God is Not Willing
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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

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