Series Guide

Malazan Book of the Fallen

by Steven Erikson

Ten volumes, three continents, three hundred millennia of buried history and a cast of thousands: Erikson's archaeological epic of empire, gods and compassion among the fallen.

In the Guide

Gardens of the Moon

1999 · book 1

The most famous deep-end opening in fantasy and the launch of the genre's most ambitious completed epic: the ten-volume Book of the Fallen, delivered at a book a year, redefined what scale and difficulty a mainstream series could sustain.

Memories of Ice

2001 · book 3

Regularly ranked the finest single Malazan novel and one of epic fantasy's summit achievements: the book that converts the series' difficulty into earned, cumulative force.