[Quick Bill]

Goosebumps yet again. Thank you Steve. I am both inspired and ... jealous. But jealously can, if we let it, be a powerful motivator: as long as we keep it in perspective.

I'm not sure whether you will read this post, but I have been kicking around the idea of a Phd dissertation involving your work. I wonder whether you are aware of any academic work that has drawn upon the Malazan Book of the Fallen. The resurgence of myth in a contemporary literary context and the creation of history, the noetic and noological re-distributions that are possible, and the sheer power of effect present in your work consistently invokes feelings of awe.

It is , like Kant has written, as though when encountering the sublime we face something horrifyingly beautiful, like the feeling standing at the base of a mountain or torrential waterfall; too overwhelming to fully comprehend yet we try nonetheless. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. While philosophy is my true passion, since I first encountered the Malazan Book of the Fallen not a single day of my life has past where your work isn't centre stage in my thoughts. Perhaps it is obsession, perhaps love, perhaps something else; but either way, it is without a doubt an experience.

Looking forward to many more re-reads and new works,
Your devoted student,
Bill

This post has been edited by Quick Bill: 11 February 2011 - 02:24 AM

[Kallyfudge]

Awesome, awesome awesome!!!!!!!

[Siergiej]

What can I say? Gratz, thanks, and keep up the great job

[Harvester]

That made me smile.

[Illuyankas]

No Steve, thank you. For everything.

[sappers rule]

I rarely post but thanks to this post i might get more invovled with the forum. Just to say that your books are amazing completely different from what i normally read and i enjoyed them greatly. thanking younalot SE for your wonderful books and i hope you write many more.






PS. any chance of any irish book tour??

[Beezulbubba]

Thank you Mr. Erikson and continued success.

[ShadowThorne]

A big thanks to Mr. Steven Erikson! Both for writing and creating the Malazan world and novels, and for taking the time to acknowledge our community and his fans!
Its going to be sad when the series ends but I am looking forward to the books that are in progress and will be released after The Crippled God

[Luzburg]

sappers rule, on 11 February 2011 - 12:22 AM, said:

I rarely post but thanks to this post i might get more invovled with the forum. Just to say that your books are amazing completely different from what i normally read and i enjoyed them greatly. thanking younalot SE for your wonderful books and i hope you write many more.






PS. any chance of any irish book tour??

I'll second that. Never been to a book signing, never been this mad about a series either! If there was one in dublin I'd probaby drag myself there.

[p1000]

I'll third that! I'd definitely travel to Dub for it.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

I am seriously touched that the man himself would take some time to address us directly, the forum community. In response I would just like to give a warm and heartfelt thanks. You have made my reading experience an incomparable delight and opened my eyes to many other similar epics: Abercrombie, Bakker, Rothfuss. It seems a very long time since that 14-yr old kid wandered into a Borders looking for the next installment of the Belgariad and, upon seeing the cover of GotM, thought, "Why not?" So very long. We've had cities and kings, battles and heroes, wry understatements and laugh-out-loud slapstick. We've had chains of dogs and memories of ice, the tolling of hounds and the dust of dreams. It has all been a rollercoaster ride, and is now set to culminate in what I am sure will be a thrilling denouement. From the bottom of my heart I say: thank you, Mr. Erikson, for putting another light into my life. I hope you continue to write for a very long time.

Peace!

[polle]

Third post in five years so I'd better make it count

Most of us agree that the Malazan Book of the Fallen is the most enthralling epic out there, but it is also the most beautifully written one, at least to me.
And so I stand in awe of what you have created here, comforted in the knowledge that there is yet more to come.

Thank you mr Erikson, and mr Esslemont as well, for sharing your world with us.

[Fid]

Such a gracious note from SE - typical of the man when he visits the forum. The promise of things to look forward for the future is great news for all of us. Look forward to seeing the tour schedule. And maybe he will have time for Hetan and Mal's series ending BBQ?

[Adhara]

Thank you, SE, for your words and Hetan for posting!
You English speaking guys have the whole story, but here in Spain we only have till Memories of Ice! So I suppose this site will be alive for a lot of years.
For me, The Malazan Book of the Fallen has been a lesson. I have carried some prejudices against some devices in fantasy: magic should be used with caution, undead people better be avoided, a character too powerful is unbelievable. SE has shattered them all, and I have learned a lot only with this reading.
And, of course, thank you SE for creating Anomandaris!

[Tiste Simeon]

Thank you Mr Erikson! (Gonna say that personally next week in Manc...) It has been an absolute joy reading the books and I can't wait to see what happens next...

[T3st0]

By far the best books I have ever read.

Thank you Mr. Erickson for a wild adventure.

I am a little behind (just started RotCG), so I am glad my ride is not over just yet.

[Dutch]

Thus this day I'm closing the final pages of the Book of the Fallen.

In awe and sorrow, in grieve and joy.

I thank you mr. Erikson for this book, these tales for I am a Hood damned Bridgeburner.

[naotom]

longtime lurker reporting in.

looking forward to saturday - and off down to waterstones now to pick up my copy!

[Illuyankas]

I think it says something when I can read through The Crippled God in ten straight hours and still feel I couldn't physically read it any slower.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

All good things must come to an end. I'm dreading and very much looking forward to this particular end. It has been a long, arduous and wonderful journey, one that I'm extremely happy that I started on all those years ago. I have laughed, I have cried, I have cursed your name and I have been...inspired. So I thank you, mr Erikson, for the good times, the bad times, the visions, the dreams, the friends I've made. In short, thank you for everything.


I won't make it to the book signings, which is, perhaps, just as well. I feel I might punch you right in the face, most respectfully of course, as I'm still not quite over certain events in DoD.

I will, however, send someone in my place, who I'm fairly certain won't punch you at all. So, if you see a thin, gaunt fellow at the signing in London (I think) asking you to sign the book to a name that is clearly not his own, that'll be me.....by proxy.


I do hope I'll get to meet you in person some day, in a non-stalker-y kind of way, of course:P