[SmellyIrishMan]

OK, straight to the point. I recently started on the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Got the 10th anniversary hardback edition for Gardens of the moon and have been reeled in. I really don't fancy reading the rest of the books in mass market paperback, but it seems like any of the older hardback versions are out of print along with even the larger scale copies.

Any reccommendations for getting HB copies, or at least the larger scale PB copy? New preferably but I could stomach second hand if it was in good condition . I've look at amazon and it shows some promise but just wondering if there is anywhere else I should be looking?

Thanks.

[caladanbrood]

If you want a hardback, the only one available as far as I know is the US edition (ISBN: 0765310023) - it's an old one too, so the best place to look is ebay or amazon.com's second hand marketplace, or alternatively somewhere like AbeBooks- the first four were all released as trade paperbacks, and GotM is only a hardback for the last month or so thanks to this tenth anniversary edition.

I'm presuming from the fact you've read the GotM Anniversary edition and from your name that you are in the UK, or at least non-mainland europe (is that the right way of phrasing it)? Ebay is probably going to be your best bet in that case, but make sure you get the right one - you want the Tor edition, not Bantam/Transworld. They both have the same image on the cover though, so it can be easy to get confused. The harback looks like this:






Also, welcome to the forums, hope you enjoy them

This post has been edited by caladanbrood: 09 December 2009 - 02:15 PM

[SmellyIrishMan]

Many thanks for the thorough run-down. I guess I'll pick up the recent hardback/large scale books I can find and settle for the mmpaperback when I must. Shame though, the anniversary edition is really nice.
I know, I know, don't judge a book by its cover but it helps if they look pretty on the shelf posthumous...

Guess if I buy all the recent hardbacks it will give me even more reason to read the entire series too, not that I needed much convincing.


Also, thanks for the welcome and I'm Irish, funnily enough .

[SmellyIrishMan]

Just got in the door to find my package from AbeBooks...

Couldn't be happier.

[Salt-Man Z]

Niiiice.

I'm looking for the SFBC hardcover, myself.

[Dutch]

SFBC?

By the way, does anyone know if there are plans for releasing 10th Anniversary Editions from the other books or will it only be Gardens of the Moon?

[Treefork]

Dutch Master of the Deck, on 01 January 2010 - 09:44 AM, said:

SFBC?

By the way, does anyone know if there are plans for releasing 10th Anniversary Editions from the other books or will it only be Gardens of the Moon?

If I had to guess I would probably say no as the series is still in progress. Book 9 was only released in 2009 and book 10 isn't finished yet. Probably just a thing they did to commemorate SE's first novel.

[murphy72]

Dutch Master of the Deck, on 01 January 2010 - 09:44 AM, said:

SFBC?

By the way, does anyone know if there are plans for releasing 10th Anniversary Editions from the other books or will it only be Gardens of the Moon?

SFBC = Science Fiction Book Club

[Salt-Man Z]

murphy72, on 01 January 2010 - 07:49 PM, said:

Dutch Master of the Deck, on 01 January 2010 - 09:44 AM, said:

SFBC?

SFBC = Science Fiction Book Club

Yep. They're slightly smaller in size than standard hardcovers (about 8.25" x 5.5") making them more portable than a HC, but more durable than a MMPB. It's a nice, attractive size, and I've managed to find books 3-7 in that format, cheap. I'm seriously looking at briefly joining the SFBC just so I can get the other Malazan books in that format.