Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen)

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  • Author : Steven Erikson
  • Binding : Mass Market Paperback
  • EAN : 9780765348784
  • Edition : Reprint
  • ISBN : 0765348780
  • Label : Tor Books
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Tor Books
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 666
  • Package Dimensions : 1.30 inches (Height) x 6.70 inches (Length) x 0.50 pounds (Weight) x 4.10 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2005-01-10
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • SKU : mon0000035650
  • Studio : Tor Books

With a field as crowded as heroic fantasy, a reader is entitled to know what makes the latest blockbuster worth his or her attention: but Bantam books are throwing considerable marketing weight behind Steven Erikson, because they clearly believe he is the Next Big Thing. They may be right--he has the breadth and detail of imaginative vision, he is able to create a world that is both absorbing on a human level and full of magical sublimity, and, above all, he can write. Gardens of the Moon concerns the military campaign by the Malazan Empire to capture the last remaining Free City on the Gernsbackian continent. War is waged with conventional soldiers as well as powerful magicians, and gods mix with mortals in a complex, but rewarding, series of narrative threads that come chiefly out of the school of Feist's Magician, although there is also something of the flavour of Gavriel Kay's celebrated Fionavar books. The moon of the title is a wonderfully grand conception, a sort of floating mountain that moves through the skies of the war-striken continent, and is the home of the 'Son of Darkness'. The various magical battles are splendidly written, and the characters are well realised. Rewardingly mellow and fiendishly readable. --Adam Roberts

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