The second book in Steven Erikson's Kharkanas trilogy - Fall of Light coming out in April. Here's the cover and the blurb:


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Here's a new interview with Steven Erikson in which he talks about why the "gimdark" and "grit" shouldn't be the point of fantasy and the books that influenced him in creation of Malazan Books. And about the deliberate choice to include the diversity of cultures, races and the magic system the removes gender-based hierarchies of power. He also ( Read more... )

The Subterranean Press' special edition for of Steven Erikson's House of Chains comes, as always, with some beautiful art. New artist, new style but but still some extremely beautiful art - just look at this cover:

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The Malazan Reread of the Fallen on tor.com came to an end with The Cripple God. They went through all the 10 books of main sequence and Ian Cameron Esslemont's Malazan Empire books that took part before The Crippled God with Bill going through actual reread while Amanda was reading the books for the first time. The wrap post that sums up the hosts ( Read more... )

There's an excerpt of the newest Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella on tor.com. Part of me wants them to die. The other part wants them to continue their wacky adventures even if that means more misery to the poor Emancipor Reese.

Tyranny comes in many guises, and tyrants thrive in palaces and one-room hovels, in back alleys and playgrounds. ( Read more... )

Jupiter Ascending opening has been moved to 6th February 2015. The trailers have been playing everywhere for a while already and it was scheduled for release in a little over a month from now so they must be really badly behind. The Wachowskis' weren't able to complete their work on more than 2,000 special effects shots in the film and get it ready ( Read more... )

The new, non-Malazan, sf book by Steven Erikson has publishing date. The Willful Child is coming out on 25th of September in UK and about two weeks later in US and it tells the whole truth about

These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to ( Read more... )

There were another awards awarded this weekend on a con. The 2012 Zajdel awards were handed out on this year Polcon:
Novel:
Robert M. Wegner, Niebo ze stali (Sky of Steel)
Jakub Ćwiek, Kłamca 4. Kill’em all
Jarosław Grzędowicz, Pan Lodowego Ogrodu, tom 4
Anna Kańtoch, Czarne
Andrzej Ziemiański, Pomnik Cesarzowej ( Read more... )

Assail - the last book of Ian Cameron Esslemont's Malazan Empire series is to be released in UK on 27th March 2014. The blurb is as follows:

The final chapter in the awesome, epic story of the Malazan empire ( Read more... )

Subterranean Press is getting ready for the special edition of the next The Tales from the Malazan Book of the Fallen book. Memories of Ice - my favourite in the series - is getting the special treatment this time.

I'm not so fond of putting Panion Domin on the cover

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