[Tiger of Summer]

Hey all,
Excited about finding this forum as it gives me the opportunity to discuss and debate the greatest series of books ever written (IMHO)... I am currently at the end of Reaper's Gale and looking forward to starting Toll the Hounds... This series just seems to be getting better and better, if that is possible... I am really looking forward to some back and forth with some fellow Erikson and MBotF fans!

[MWKarsa]

Hello all,

Longtime Fantasy/Sci-Fi fan as I got started with SW as a little kid and love to read series like this one as it's renewed my love of great fantasy books. Longtime LOTR fan and got into WOT and will finish that series though it really spun a bit out of control but I picked up Gardens of the Moon on a whim at Half Priced Books and have been totally hooked since. Unlike other series I've tried to pace myself with this one and not plough through the series so I just finished Toll the Hounds and purchased Dust of Dreams but I'm waiting for my copy of the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach stories to arrive to read that before moving on to Dust of Dreams.

Looking forward to posting, reading threads and others' posts and getting to
know the site better. Been on many boards before and I'm an Admin on a MMA site so hopefully I won't make too many Noob mistakes here.

This post has been edited by MWKarsa: 04 December 2010 - 03:59 AM

[amphibian]

Alisha, on 30 November 2010 - 02:29 AM, said:

Hi All,
I am a fantasy nut and I have given up on Robert Jordan, still have faith in George RR Martin and NOW have a new love for Steve Erikson. It took me 2 times to get through GOTM. Then as I kept on through DG and MOI I am so invested in these books and am so enjoying them!! See you all around!

Welcome to the forum. Keep on chuggin' through them. Be prepared for a DG style shift between characters and settings once you get to Midnight Tides and I hope you keep on loving these books.

Tiger of Summer, on 02 December 2010 - 10:05 PM, said:

Hey all,
Excited about finding this forum as it gives me the opportunity to discuss and debate the greatest series of books ever written (IMHO)... I am currently at the end of Reaper's Gale and looking forward to starting Toll the Hounds... This series just seems to be getting better and better, if that is possible... I am really looking forward to some back and forth with some fellow Erikson and MBotF fans!

Greatest of all time? I dunno about that. But we can hash it out if you want. Welcome to you, too.

MWKarsa, on 04 December 2010 - 03:00 AM, said:

Hello all,

Longtime Fantasy/Sci-Fi fan as I got started with SW as a little kid and love to read series like this one as it's renewed my love of great fantasy books. Longtime LOTR fan and got into WOT and will finish that series though it really spun a bit out of control but I picked up Gardens of the Moon on a whim at Half Priced Books and have been totally hooked since. Unlike other series I've tried to pace myself with this one and not plough through the series so I just finished Toll the Hounds and purchased Dust of Dreams but I'm waiting for my copy of the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach stories to arrive to read that before moving on to Dust of Dreams.

Looking forward to posting, reading threads and others' post and getting know the site better. Been on many boards before and I'm an Admin on a MMA site so hopefully I won't make too many Noob mistakes here.

Don't worry about being a "noob". Mostly correct spelling and a good dose of respect will have you getting along swimmingly - or hoppingly in my case.

We got a couple Texans on this board - not in Austin, but somewhere in that giant state of yers. Welcome to the board.

[Unchained God]

Hi everybody.Big fan of the Malazan world here, coming from the Netherlands. Love Steven Erikson's work, although i do not understand why he chose that name and not Rune which is a cool fantasy name. I'm a new fan, only read five novels up to now but i am awed. This has got me addicted. Every novel gets beter and better. Only one problem and that is that they are too short.

This post has been edited by Unchained God: 05 December 2010 - 07:27 PM

[Arcuate]

So, hi everyone.

As you can see, I've actually joined a while ago. However, I was mainly lurking and all and then I stopped coming around due to various circumstances (grad school mostly).

I discovered Erikson through an old colleague of mine, somewhere in 2007 or 2008. His description of the world, its scope, and especially how Erikson and Esslemont came to create it got me intrigued, as I myself am an avid tabletop RPG player and have worked on a few settings projects for some of my friends, as well as on my own project. So in some way it was like seeing what me and my friends were trying to do realized, and that's just awesome. At the time I was also yearning for some good reading, so it didn't take much to convince me to give it a try.

Then he told me about the Tenescowri and I went and bought the first book on my break that day. Since then I've read the series twice, re-read GoTM not too long ago and am now on my third read of DG.

So er, I admit to not having read through the thread so I don't know what I'm supposed to say. But uh, I'm a grad student in philosophy, doing my MA on naturalized epistemology and more precisely on non-sentential epistemologies in relation to cognitive neurosciences. Not that it's important, but since school is a big part of my life, I thought I'd mention it. I live in Montreal, Canada, and I'm 23. I very much enjoy cookies. I sometimes talk like Kruppe to irritate my friends.

Cheers!

This post has been edited by Neurosis33: 10 December 2010 - 05:47 AM

[T'lan Imass]

Greetings to all Malazan fanatics out there. I am a crazy fan too (from Greece) and loyal supporter of the emperor Kellanved. I discovered the series by chance and yesterday I finished Reaper's Gale. Needless to say, it was amazing. I admit to some relief cause there are so many readers and to some anxiety because there are only 3 books remaining now. In any case, hi to every Imass, Bridgeburner, Bonehunter, Seguleh, Shadow dancer and all other cool guys.

[HoosierDaddy]

Welcome to the forum new members!

T Minus 2 months til ultimate fulfillment!

[Fenner]

Hi everyone, my name's Tom and I've been a fan of the Malaz series for years now; I've read most of them as they were published (thought my teeth would fall out while I waited for Reaper's Gale) and I used to visit this site, but my interests waned for a while. (and Toll The Hounds didn't help)... But I've got back into the series with Dust of Dreams and thought I'd give this place another try.


Did I mention I'm from Manchester? Weird how many fans there are, what with the pretty dire state of fantasy in England. Anyway yeah, hello, and so forth.

[brus]

hello

i am very excited to have finally found this place, i am a fan of "the books" as i call them and have read the entire series through 2 times, i have read the first 5 books through 5 times and am currently reading through midnight tides again. i am looking forward to discussing the series with all of you

[Daydreamer]

Hi, everyone. Another new member here. And another one from England, as it happens. I only recently became a fan of Malazan (about 6 months ago I guess) and haven't managed to complete all the books yet. Someone else started requesting them from the library before I could get further than about halfway through HoC. I went off and read other things, figuring that maybe I was best off wating until the last book was released before getting anymore into it than I already was (err, which was already pretty deep, admittedly). Enter a wonderful gran who asks me what I would like for Christmas and doesn't get put off by the fact that she has no idea what I'm talking about. All the books are now hidden away where I can't get at them until Christmas Day and I'm waiting impatiently until I can dive back in. But I have a feeling I'm going to need some serious help making sense of things at times, so here I am.

This post has been edited by Daydreamer: 14 December 2010 - 04:40 PM

[Helius]

hi all recently fell across the malazan empire books, took me some time to adapt to the the particular style of writing, but am definitely hooked i can certainly say Deadhousegates is my favourite ...hmmmm no wait maybe its the bonehunters... come to think if it memories of ice also...ok well you understand definitely enjoy all the books i can still smell and taste the desert raraku... and am still marching with the 14th in reapers gale
cheers!

[Senga]

Hulloh, I'm Senga.

I'm not so egotistical as to make a new thread in celebration of my own arrival; so I'll make my introduction here.

I discovered these books some years ago when my roommate at the time left a copy of Gardens of the Moon in the bathroom. Honestly, the only reason I picked it up to begin with was that this particular copy had some praise on the front cover from Stephen R. Donaldson. Since Donaldson is another of my favorite authors, I decided that if it's good enough to earn his high praise I could certainly give it a chance. So I picked it up.

I had finished it the next day by virtue of electing to skip sleeping, and the day after that I found myself in Barnes and Noble blowing that week's food money on the rest of the series (Deadhouse Gates to Toll the Hounds). Fortunately my roommate also considered these books to be fair trade for an empty belly.

At present I'm rereading the series to refresh my memory and whet my appetite for Dust of Dreams. I'm halfway through House of Chains, which I think is my favorite because Karsa Orlong is the badass to end all badasses.

Also, I play secondlife a lot. SL has a rich roleplaying community, and while I entertained the possibility of perhaps trying to arrange RP in the Malazan setting (I understand it was originally written for GURPS, anyhow), I've only met one person who'd be interested in such a setting. That and the size of the world itself would be impossible to recreate without a huge chain of sims.

So. Yeah. Hey.

[Nebiahlia_47]

Hello, all!

I am from the United States and am just beginning university. I was looking for a series to occupy myself with because I needed to find a refuge from my studies. I was looking up which series would be best to read via Google, and - well - *this* popped up. I just ordered the first two books from Amazon and am looking forward to immersing myself in its covers. I want to prepare for the journey ahead, and so here I am.

[HiddenOne]

Welcome new people. Also, PURPLE TEXT is hard to read.

[sapped_sapper]

Hello everyone.

Fantasy fan and aspiring fantasy expert from Romania, currently reading into Erikson's series. Having found I now like it more than all I've previously read( granted, not too many, but enough to form a list) and after stumbing onto stuff on the internet, I decided to join the community here, and share my thoughts on what I'm reading.
Looking forward to lengthy discussions.

[Limper]

Having been here a year or so (with an awesome 3-4 posts), it's a very good place. Yes, the books are too short. Yes we need more of them, and yesterday not tomorrow. I found Gardens of the Moon through an Amazon recommendation (probably because I bought a lot of Glen Cook from them). SE is awesome, although he throws more characters at us than I can hold in my head before at least the third reading and the frequent point-of-view shifts have become torturous in recent novels (Toll the Hounds, IIRC, was excruciating in that regard). Nevertheless, I love the series and even decided to pay for the K&B novelettes. I certainly hope Erikson survives and perseveres to extend the series or write something else comparable, but if not, he's still immortal alongside Cook, Zelazny, Early Jordan+Sanderson, Card, E.E. Smith, Asimov, and maybe Brin, Vinge, Modessit, Saberhagan, etc. on Mount Readmore.

My prediction for the end of the series: K'rul: "Quick Ben, you are my father." (mother being a walnut, of course)

Edit: Don't know how I didn't mention Tolkien and maybe PFHamilton among the greats for Mt. Readmore. I'd hope a hungry Erikson fan would find these worth a review or read.

This post has been edited by Limper: 08 January 2011 - 05:51 AM

[Seph]

Hi guys,

I finally got myself to register here. I hope to have the change to talk about this great world and also to get some of my questions answered

[Adhara]

Hi everybody!

Here is a newbie who has just finished Gardens of the Moon. So, you will not meet me in the other subforums. But I promise to keep on reading!
I hope to say something useful soon, but I´m afraid my first post will be only a greeting .

[ThinkingMalaz]

Hello people,

just registered. I'm a long time reader of the series, and I hope to hang around here looking at some theories odf others and (hopefully) occasionally make a helpful contribution

[Da'alar]

I work for a Book Distribution warehouse, and am a game development hobbiest. Came to the malazan series by way of Glen Cook. Here mostly for forgotten bits of info and clarifications while I work on my hobby project.