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New Interview with Ian C Esslemont

#1 Ribald

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 08:18 AM

I was lucky to get ICE to answer some questions for me

https://thecriticald...mont-interview/

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#2 champ

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 08:34 AM

Nice interview...

Most important piece of information learned... MORE SHIPS!!!!!!

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 09:02 AM

Wait a second Does this mean what I think it means?

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I will also say that I am very leery of the “prequel” word. Don’t like it. I see this as a new series in the Malaz world – the Path to Ascension – that (could) prove as long as it need be to tell its tale.

It maybe longer than a trilogy?

And then there's this:

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I’ll say that the working title for book 2 is Deadhouse Landing. And that there’s a big hint as to the setting of this one.

Great interview, I hope you don't mind if I share the link?

#4 Ribald

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 09:12 AM

By all means share the link.

Glad you liked the interview. I had never interviewed an author before, so it was fun.

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 09:19 AM

Great interview! Deadhouse landing, huh...

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 09:33 AM

Gorefest, on 15 April 2016 - 09:19 AM, said:

Great interview! Deadhouse landing, huh...

Malaz City maybe? Also longer than a trilogy?

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 10:10 AM

Maybe he is trying to make every book in this series start with D(something) L(another string of words). Would make it hard to abbreviate titles.

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 10:57 AM

really good interview...

Wish you would have asked him to confirm who Jethiss was from Assail...then we can finally put that one to bed...:-)

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 11:09 AM

koehkont, on 15 April 2016 - 10:10 AM, said:

Maybe he is trying to make every book in this series start with D(something) L(another string of words). Would make it hard to abbreviate titles.

That would be epic. I read DL, now I'm going on to read DL before reading DL.

Him not limiting it into a trilogy sounds good to me. If he can make it work in a trilogy it's fine, but my initial feeling after DL was that it would need more than 3 books.

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 11:23 AM

Hocknose, on 15 April 2016 - 10:57 AM, said:

really good interview...

Wish you would have asked him to confirm who Jethiss was from Assail...then we can finally put that one to bed...:-)

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 12:26 PM

Thank you for the interview. Well done!

And hey, potentially more Early Empire books. Good News

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 01:38 PM

Great interview.
Really liked that question on which Malazan character would he have over for dinner.
Thanks

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 01:43 PM

Yup, great interview! If you want to get more hits, I'd suggest crossposting it to reddit.com/r/fantasy and reddit.com/r/malazan.

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#14 Andorion

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 04:06 PM

I posted it to r/Malazan

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 04:25 PM

Nice interview!

I''ve added a link to it in the News section on the front page of the Wiki.

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 04:45 PM

koehkont, on 15 April 2016 - 10:10 AM, said:

Maybe he is trying to make every book in this series start with D(something) L(another string of words). Would make it hard to abbreviate titles.

DAMMIT ICE!

THIS IS YOUR REMINDER THAT THERE IS A
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT

#17 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 05:16 PM

DaLa/DeLa?

Ooh, I know! Just like some folks do "DHG", we could have "DHL". Heh.

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#18 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 05:22 PM

Dancer's Lament
Deadhouse Landing
Duo's Learning
Deadly LARPing
Dassem's Lesson
Damned Liosan

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Posted 15 April 2016 - 06:10 PM

Hah, Damned Liosan sounds like a novella in the kharkanas trilogy. I would definitely read it.
Other suggestions:

Dragon's Leisure
Discrete Lubrication
Dark Livers
Destroying Li Heng
Dueling Leprechauns