Steven Erikson
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New York Times bestselling author whose debut novel, Gardens of the Moon, set readers on the epic adventure that is The Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
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I admit to a certain childlike pleasure when writing about dragons. But then the child in me disappears, and I hear the crunching of tiny bones.
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My old flint knapping kit and a chunk of flint... the bashed up antler was found in a stream and is partly mineralized
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5 Books That Will Fill The 'GoT' Shaped Hole In Your Life Come Summer
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And so Pages auotcorrects a character name to Salad. How did the program find its new word? It's a toss up I guess.
#walkinshadow
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Some people have cats on their keyboard. I have wasps. Memo to self: avoid the F key...
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In a few days I'm going to provide you with the prologue from 'The God is Not Willing.' As a teaser. Unless, of course, you'd all rather I didn't.
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The God is Not Willing: Prologue
Godswalk Mountain Range, Northwest Genabackis, Teblor Territory
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"The ascent had taken six days. By midday on the seventh they reached the top of the escarpment ... "
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Learning never ends. This was an amazing read. Meticulously researched and well-written.
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My very first draft of Gardens of the Moon stalled after about three pages. I spent ten minutes re-reading what I’d written to that point, and then I hit the delete button. Not a typical start for me. By this...
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@malazan_quotes
It worked. Hard to pick just one and I’m tempted to say I don’t have a favorite, but this stands out: “The shore gives way to the sea.
And the sea, my friends, does not dream of you.”
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Whatever you may celebrate in this season, may it be joyous and peaceful. Pax Malazica.
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For a fascinating insight on how personality can affect science. And btw, the people involved in this tale are indeed men. Feuding men at that.
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Just wrote a new essay, posted on my Erikson FB page.
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Southwest Saskatchewan, past summer. My rental car took a beating.
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Word deleted the entire file. Good thing I took pics.
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Just bought a Samsung Flip 3. It's an interim thing. I'm on the waitlist for the Samsung Phaser-Phone, which I will always set to stun. Almost always.
#undeadauthorsunited
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For the third time in a week Word has crashed on me. Does it just not like being offline? Luckily I sensed it coming and took pics of pages. Think I lost three lines in all.
#walkinshadow
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Today in Darujhistan, Picker, Blend and Scillara had lunch at a rooftop restaurant.
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And these are the days when I feel utterly invisible.
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Many First Contact novels I’ve read left me frustrated. Okay, the aliens have arrived. Now what?
#rejoiceaknifetotheheart
#Stevenerikson
#malazan
#firstcontact
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Today's the day. Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart is now in stores!
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Oh, and in keeping with the hypersensitivity of the modern age, one fan said 'no' to the teaser. Therefore I'm not going to ... okay, just kidding.
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Apparently, I will soon be receiving 30 copies of the Subterranean Press 'The Bonehunters.' At which point we'll set up a charity auction. Stay Tuned.
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Commenting on a work-in-progress is always risky. Whatever the author says is going to run headlong into fan expectation like a ’65 Delmont 88 slamming into a wall. The car’s enough of a...
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re: Life on Thin Ice ... thanks for all your words of encouragement. They are much appreciated.
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To all England fans, commiserations. To all Croatia fans, congratulations. To all France fans, haven't you guys won this enough times already? Go Croatia! 😜
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"I am considering announcing a Royal Project to construct the world’s highest fence for ever separating our respective territories, with some fine hedging to soften the effect." - Tehol
So yeah, like I...
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my Gemini PDA has shipped ... and yes, I plan on writing the entire Karsa novel on it.
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POV Part Two
Just a few words to clarify the notion of psychic distance in fiction. It’s been noted by readers of this essay’s first part that psychic distance can come into play when fashioning the...
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Just back from Epinal, France. My thanks to those who invited me, especially my new French Publisher, Leha Editions. Extraordinary hospitality from everyone. Unexpected bonus: meeting UK fantasy authors...
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There's a couple links in this article well worth following. I've posted this as a kind of precursor to my essay on setting, although it's something of an oblique precursor. And, I...
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holy crap, epigrams, not epigraphs, I mean, epitaphs, no wait, spirographs, damn autoconnect!
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Pre-orders for REJOICE are open ().
I'm offering the opportunity to win a phone/Skype call with me. To enter, send a photo/copy of your receipt with your name and what you'd like to talk about to info
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-erikson.org.
#stevenerikson
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for Jeopardy fans, seems Malaz invaded the gameshow last night. Can anyone post a link?
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I loved that film, though I think I was the only one laughing out loud in the cinema.
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First one star review on Amazon for Rejoice, by someone named ... (wait for it) ... rednecklawyer. 😎😎
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Did I really use that word in my title? I searched high and low for an alternative, something, anything to describe what has been done to my beloved Star Trek. But nothing else quite fits...
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The Language of the Night: Capitalism and Fantasy
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There are so many ways to measure success. Imagine, living employing a particular set of behaviours and characteristics not for a mere thousand years, or even two. But 250 000 years. When it comes to continuity, us moderns are mere toddlers.
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Just had a sneak-peak at the Leha Editions (French) trailer for the Malazan Series. Stay tuned: it's pretty damned awesome....
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Memory lane ... lunch at Bar Italia, Winnipeg. Where I finished Memories of Ice and wrote the three novels that followed. But walking in scared the crap out of me: country music's playing!
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In general I'm not a fan of comic book movies, but for this reason alone, I will be seeing this movie.
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Every time I get ready to resume the work on the Karsa novel, something else arrives. First it was the proof of the third Willful Child novel, then it was both versions of Rejoice proofs (US and UK), and...
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Hello everyone. As you can see, there's a new banner for this page (and for my author site). I'm not sure where the November release thing came up for The God is Not Willing, but I don't expect that to...
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Setting in Fantasy fiction is complicated business.
Read my newest essay on writing:
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DNA reveals origin of Stonehenge builders
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The Winnipeg River was the major route for Voyageurs plying the fur-trade into the west. A few decades ago an underwater archaeology project recovered all kinds of stuff at the base of Sturgeon Falls...
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Next Wednesday I fly to Paris. I hope to write a piece on setting in fiction before I go, just to give you budding writers something to chew on. Should be posted by Tuesday.
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landed in Optaija, Croatia. This weekend: Liburnicon. Daily Fact: when the Romans encountered the Liburnians, the latter were using ships made of rope.
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And they say capitalism has no sole.
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Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? | Phil McDuff
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Posted to me by a fan. Thanks, Sarah Dexter, for the link. This article expounds on some of the subtext beneath my essays on POV and characterisation. Of course, in my Malazan series, I kind of...
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So it's been a year since I last played Star Trek Online. I have a host of characters to choose from. Any suggestions? Death Gecko, Deadly Lampshade, The Eel, or Junior?
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if I had to define myself politically, I'd be a small 'l' small 'd' liberal democrat affiliated with no particular political, but this person's gotta point.
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when I think of dogs for my fiction, this is what inspires me.
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The Big Idea: Steven Erikson
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Seems Europe won't let me go. Liburnicon, Optaija, Croatia, in August.
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Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050
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Okay, I normally don't post things like this, but some of the tag-lines are simply brilliant.
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The Timeless Myth of Medusa, a Rape Victim Turned Into a Monster
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Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human species
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Hello!
Admin here--sneaking in to let you know that the pre-order contest to win a call with Steve will be open until October 15, 2018. Thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered--don't...
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Once, there was no jungle, not in the Yucatan, not in present-day Peten, Guatemala: just cities and farmland. And this is how a civilization can collapse in the blink of an eye.
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Spent the last week catching up on Season 2 of The Orville. Astonishing, isn't it, that Seth McFarlane can do Star Trek better than the makers of Star Trek. The two-parter was excellent, with brilliant...
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Today’s fun: Choosing colors and paper for the North American hardcover edition of Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart with
@PromontoryPress
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For a comprehensive analysis on the effects of contact (beyond the hypothesis presented here), look to 1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann. Dense reading but worth it.
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I want to know: what if…and…what then? I have this suspicion. If ET arrived tomorrow, all they’d have to do to bring down human civilization, is show up. No giant lasers, no hordes of giant spiders or mech-warriors. Just show up.
We’ll do the rest.
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I have some thoughts on this, but I'll wait to see your responses.
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"The most vulnerable authors are those who write series: when book one does well, but book two is heavily pirated, book three could end up dead...
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This one is bound to elicit some debate. Note George Monbiot's response in the comments, to which I'd respond that he's thinking of the UK as a distinct,...
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Well! That's one hornet nest I won't be kicking again any time soon. ("Or," whispers the devil inside, "maybe I will!") — feeling hyper
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A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
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And those assumptions make me … skeptical. In fact, I’m having a hard time buying it. I don’t think resources are scarce out there. Space isn’t even as empty as we think it is (as physicists are now discovering). I don’t think life is rare
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so it was my plan on posting an essay on the use of setting in fantasy fiction before I left for France. But that essay is kind of expanding -- I admit I thought that might happen, as setting is a huge...
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While The Atlantic isn't what it used to be, this article's worth reading
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I can’t really imagine that any spacefaring civilization coming to visit us gives a flying fuck about our nations, presidents, dictators, covert agencies, corporate interests, borders, militaries, capitalism, communism and all the rest.
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Same for astronauts, military types... Nor politicians. Would you want them mucking it up with aliens? I wouldn’t, for the simple reason that they’re not qualified and, oh yeah, I don’t trust them.
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This series of novels may have slipped past you, so I'm posting here and giving it my highest recommendation. The third one has just been released.
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