Moon Gardens
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Moon Gardens
In this war, most soldiers are only interested in survival or revenge...
The Malazi Empire, once a modest island state, is expanding unstoppably across the continent called Genabakis under the new Empress Laseen. Having conquered Drevnov, she now has her greedy eyes fixed on Darujistan, over which looms the Moonstone Fortress, with whose mysterious ruler the desperate inhabitants of the last of the Free Cities have forged an alliance. But the Empire is far from the only powerful figure in this bloody and messy game. Ominous forces emerge from the shadows and the gods themselves come into play. What plans do they have for the sorceress Besana and the noble officer Paran, for the thieving Flower, or for Sergeant Whiskeyjack, who commands the famous Bridge Burners? Only time will tell who will meet undying glory and who will meet only useless death...
The first story in the Malazi Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume epic fantasy series that rivals the Wheel of Time or Game of Thrones in its complexity and originality.
They wrote about the book:
Steven Erikson's Malazi Book of the Fallen is the most elaborate and cruel fantasy saga of the last twenty-five years.
- Boris Hokr, CT art
Erikson created a world unlike any other.
- Ikaria magazine
The amazing story of the Garden of the Moon will be appreciated not only by fantasy fans, but by anyone who loves books and well-written adventure stories.
- The Guardian
Steven Erikson
(* 1959) A native of Toronto, Canada, Steve Rune Lundin studied anthropology and archaeology and also took a course in creative writing. He lived with his family for several years in the UK, where he chose the artistic pseudonym Steven Erikson at the request of his publisher. He made his debut in the field of fantasy literature with the prose novel Moon Gardens (1992), set in an original world he invented with his colleague Ian Cameron Esslemont. The book, however, did not become a major success until the rights were bought by Bantam Books in the late 1990s, which requested a sequel. Its reissue was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2000, and the rights to the entire ten-volume series, entitled The Malazi Book of the Fallen (1999-2011), eventually earned the author close to £500,000. Epopee was published in Czech in a translation by Dana Krejčová under the Talpress publishing house (2002-2012) and from 2022 it will be republished by Planeta9. Erikson's other novels and short stories, written with Ian C. Esslemont.
