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Steven Erikson to start writing Walk in Shadow
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Posted 29 July 2020 - 12:45 PM
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Posted 29 July 2020 - 06:48 PM
I'm hopeful one day he'll go all in and write a Malazan level SF series.... multiple characters and povs, millenia of timelines, someone has sex with a spidermorph, the whole thing.
My loose understanding is that while REJOICE didn't fly off the shelves, the WILLFUL CHILD books have done just fine. I'm stretching the analogy, but if REJOICE is to the KT what CHILD is to the MBF, the money would be there.
My loose understanding is that while REJOICE didn't fly off the shelves, the WILLFUL CHILD books have done just fine. I'm stretching the analogy, but if REJOICE is to the KT what CHILD is to the MBF, the money would be there.
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Posted 29 July 2020 - 07:27 PM
Am I the only one who wants a Late Imperial period Malazan series at some point too? The fall of the Empire, you know?
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Posted 29 July 2020 - 08:40 PM
QuickTidal, on 29 July 2020 - 07:27 PM, said:
Am I the only one who wants a Late Imperial period Malazan series at some point too? The fall of the Empire, you know?
With Grub and Sinn!
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Posted 29 July 2020 - 09:34 PM
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 29 July 2020 - 08:40 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 29 July 2020 - 07:27 PM, said:
Am I the only one who wants a Late Imperial period Malazan series at some point too? The fall of the Empire, you know?
With Grub and Sinn!
There's that one chapter plate in HoC that speaks on Grubb as First Sword of the Late Empire...and I'm like "Oh man, tell me that story too!"
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
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Posted 30 July 2020 - 02:23 AM
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 29 July 2020 - 08:40 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 29 July 2020 - 07:27 PM, said:
Am I the only one who wants a Late Imperial period Malazan series at some point too? The fall of the Empire, you know?
With Grub and Sinn!
I see a slight problem with half of that cast.
QuickTidal, on 29 July 2020 - 09:34 PM, said:
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 29 July 2020 - 08:40 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 29 July 2020 - 07:27 PM, said:
Am I the only one who wants a Late Imperial period Malazan series at some point too? The fall of the Empire, you know?
With Grub and Sinn!
There's that one chapter plate in HoC that speaks on Grubb as First Sword of the Late Empire...and I'm like "Oh man, tell me that story too!"
Same same. Want.
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Posted 30 July 2020 - 02:55 AM
Abyss, on 30 July 2020 - 02:23 AM, said:
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 29 July 2020 - 08:40 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 29 July 2020 - 07:27 PM, said:
Am I the only one who wants a Late Imperial period Malazan series at some point too? The fall of the Empire, you know?
With Grub and Sinn!
I see a slight problem with half of that cast.
QuickTidal, on 29 July 2020 - 09:34 PM, said:
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 29 July 2020 - 08:40 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 29 July 2020 - 07:27 PM, said:
Am I the only one who wants a Late Imperial period Malazan series at some point too? The fall of the Empire, you know?
With Grub and Sinn!
There's that one chapter plate in HoC that speaks on Grubb as First Sword of the Late Empire...and I'm like "Oh man, tell me that story too!"
Same same. Want.
Uh, I mean...erm...
Lor-sinn!
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Posted 30 July 2020 - 07:01 AM
Abyss, on 29 July 2020 - 06:48 PM, said:
I'm hopeful one day he'll go all in and write a Malazan level SF series.... multiple characters and povs, millenia of timelines, someone has sex with a spidermorph, the whole thing.
Seconded
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Posted 02 August 2020 - 07:43 PM
Another short essay from Erikson, this time describing the process of writing the book's first chapter. It includes the text of the chapter's opening scene starring Prazek and Dathenar.
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Posted 02 August 2020 - 09:11 PM
Aptorian, on 28 July 2020 - 09:27 AM, said:
Oh dear, sounds like I won't like Walk in Shadow. I haven't read Fall of light but my takeaway from this write up is that he's sticking to his formula, which is all well and good. It's just not a story that matches the myths I built in my mind during the early books.
By 'style' I think he's primarily referring to the prose style (Shakespearean influence, declamatory/oratorical, 'breath-phrase' organization, language a bit antiquated, bit like an 'epic poem' etc.) and scope/focus (inward rather than expansive), not high fantasy/low fantasy. I'd expect it to swerve towards high fantasy / epic myth at some point (hopefully...)....
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Posted 06 August 2020 - 03:19 AM
Erikson has a line in TBH that is relevant to much of this thread:
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Yet the truth of things was never as interesting as the mystery preceding the revelation, and Banaschar had come to appreciate his own ignorance.
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Posted 24 August 2020 - 05:36 PM
Erikson has an interesting quote about WiS in the latest NOT A TSACAST podcast:
The WiS talk begins around 43 minutes into the podcast.
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Walk in Shadow is a lot more action-filled because it's the consequence of the first two books. The pace should be up a fair bit.
The WiS talk begins around 43 minutes into the podcast.
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Posted 01 December 2020 - 11:02 AM
Am I the only one who feels there is a big gap in knowledge which WiS should have filled in many years ago ?
The way I see it, the Kharkanas series is the whole foundation for the events in MBD. I'm on my second read-through of MBD, and this time I started with FoD and FoL (and the PtA series). So glad I did, it has helped enormously with my understanding of just about everything, except Shadow.
The way I see it, the Kharkanas series is the whole foundation for the events in MBD. I'm on my second read-through of MBD, and this time I started with FoD and FoL (and the PtA series). So glad I did, it has helped enormously with my understanding of just about everything, except Shadow.
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Posted 01 December 2020 - 10:20 PM
Avatar, on 01 December 2020 - 10:10 PM, said:
What's MBD, Shalmanat?
Sorry....should have been Malazan Book of the Fallen. Got it mixed up with The Tibetan Book of The Dead, which is something else entirely.. ;-)
