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#1 stev

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Posted 19 March 2013 - 04:24 PM

If I wanted to read the series of both SE and ICE Chronologically what's the order? Anyone?

#2 Nevyn

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Posted 19 March 2013 - 06:54 PM

There really isn't a chronological order to speak of, as there are flashbacks and the like.

Best bet is to read by release date, which appears to match the order of the book forums on here.

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Posted 19 March 2013 - 10:29 PM

This is the best you can do Stev. This is taken from a post in The Reapers Gale forum. I often use this when re-reading now.

QUOTE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN
BBS: Before Burn's Sleep
BS: Burn's Sleep

??? BBS: Prologue I of Midnight Tides/Prologue I of Reaper's Gale*
298,665 BBS: Prologue I of Memories of Ice
119,736 BBS: Prologue II of Memories of Ice
1154 BS: Prologue of Gardens of the Moon
1154 BS: Night of Knives

1154 BS?: Blood Follows**
1154 BS?: The Lees of Laughters End
1158 BS: The Healthy Dead

1159 BS: Prologue II of Midnight Tides
1161 BS: Chapter 1 of Gardens of the Moon
1161-62 BS: Midnight Tides
1162-63 BS?: Prologue and Book I of House of Chains***

1163 BS: Gardens of the Moon
1163-64 BS: Deadhouse Gates/Memories of Ice (occur simultaneously)

1164 BS: Books II-IV of House of Chains

1164 BS?: Prologue II of Reaper's Gale

1164-65 BS?: The Bonehunter
1164-66 BS?: Return of the Crimson Guard (may overlap with both TBH & RG)
1165-66 BS?: Reaper's Gale
1165-66 BS?: Toll the Hounds
post-1166 BS: Dust of Dreams
post-1166 BS: The Crippled God

* I'm assuming the war between the K'Chain Che'Malle and the Tiste predates the Tellann Ritual in the opening prologue of MoI, as the Imass don't seem to know anything about the KCCM, indicating that their time is long before then.

** IIRC, Emancipor Reese says in MoI that he's been with Broach and Bauchelain for ten years, and Lees takes place shortly after Blood Follows.

*** This includes both Trull being stuck on the wall and the whole Karsa storyline and yes I know this is reopening an old can of worms.

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Posted 19 March 2013 - 10:33 PM

FoD
RotCG Prologue
MT Prologue
RG Prologue
MoI Prologue
NoK
GotM Prologue
MT
HoC book 1 (about halfway through, start reading a chapter of HoC for every book of GotM)
DG Prologue
HoC Prologue
BF
tLoLE
WoBM
DG and MoI, alternating every chapter or so
HoC books 2-4, and read tHD and CPT sometime in-between HoC chapters
BH prologue
BH (during the last book, start alternating chapters with the start of RG)
finish off RG
RotCG
TtH prologue except for the first part
The first half of TtH
Continue reading TtH and start slowly alternating chapters with SW
the 1st part of the TtH prologue
TtH epilogue
DoD prologue
GoG
Continue SW while alternating chapters with DoD
intertwine the second half of DoD, the end of SW, TCG, OST and B&B, lining up the endings of TCG, SW, B&B and OST together
Assail

CowboyYojimbo, on 19 March 2013 - 10:30 PM, said:

This is the best you can do Stev.

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worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 19 March 2013 - 10:55 PM

Damn Drek, that is comprehensive haha.

I wonder if anyone has actually alternated chapters like that? I should try this on read through...

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Posted 20 March 2013 - 04:56 AM

I couldn't imagine reading them like that. While it might make things a little clearer timeline-wise, I think it would thematically disrupt several of the books. The mid-book transitions between ICE and SE would be jarring as well.

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#7 Nevyn

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Posted 20 March 2013 - 07:14 PM

D, on 19 March 2013 - 10:33 PM, said:

...
NoK
GotM Prologue
...

Aren't those two reversed? In the midst of a NoK re-read and they refer to the riots and the purging of wax-witches,etc, as having already happened. Also I think in the GotM conversation, the Emperor isn't dead yet, just still missing.

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Posted 20 March 2013 - 08:58 PM

Nevyn, on 20 March 2013 - 07:14 PM, said:

D, on 19 March 2013 - 10:33 PM, said:

...
NoK
GotM Prologue
...

Correct.

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 20 March 2013 - 09:06 PM

D, on 19 March 2013 - 10:33 PM, said:

...Continue SW while alternating chapters with DoD
intertwine the second half of DoD, the end of SW, TCG, OST and B&B, lining up the endings of TCG, SW, B&B and OST together...

I'm not sure what's scarier... that this is accurate, that you were able to explain it, or that so many of us understood it.

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Posted 20 March 2013 - 10:53 PM

Or that I don't even question such things, that scares me

Now who has all the books in electronic format and can shuffle them into the order presented here? I'm ready to trade the last tattered remnants of my sanity for a sense of literary accomplishment equal to that of the guy who found the manuscript written by the first Martian to get marooned on Earth

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Posted 20 March 2013 - 11:43 PM

Has anyone confirmed whether the Kindle version of GotM ever fixed all those errors?

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Posted 22 March 2013 - 12:42 PM

worrywort, on 20 March 2013 - 11:43 PM, said:

Has anyone confirmed whether the Kindle version of GotM ever fixed all those errors?

Were there errors? I read the TPB version first then the .epub version on reread. Nothing stood out, but I wasn't really looking for it either. Were they OCR errors or actual content errors?

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Posted 22 March 2013 - 08:27 PM

OCR errors I believe. Consistently calling Toc "Toe the Younger" and stuff like that.

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Posted 22 March 2013 - 08:32 PM

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Posted 22 March 2013 - 09:18 PM

Oh. Let me check...

No tiste andu and two instances of toe the younger and two or three plain old Toe's on my epub. Toc appears many times so it looks like most have been fixed. There is no version information, but the maps inside are in color and SEs preface from 07 is present as well.