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by Steven Erikson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 912 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press; Airport / Export ed edition (1 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0593046307
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593046302
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 5.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 208,812 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This is true myth in the making, a drawing upon fantasy to recreate histories and legends as rich as any found within our culture."
--"Interzone
""Gripping, fast-moving, delightfully dark ... Erikson brings a punchy, mesmerizing writing style into the genre of epic fantasy, making an indelible impression. Utterly engrossing."
--"Elizabeth Haydon"

"From the Paperback edition."

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The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy. For it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled. A place of foreboding, its smell is of death. But elsewhere, agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a schism threatens and sides must be chosen. Whatever each god decides, the ground-rules have changed, irrevocably, terrifyingly and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world. A world in which a host of characters, familiar and new, including Heboric Ghost Hands, the possessed Apsalar, Cutter, once a thief now a killer, the warrior Karsa Orlong and the two ancient wanderers Icarium and Mappo, each searching for such a fate as they might fashion with their own hands, guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. But now that knives have been unsheathed, the gods are disinclined to be kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And, the prize? Nothing less than existence itself...Here is the stunning new chapter in Steven Erikson magnificent "Malazan Book of the Fallen" - hailed an epic of the imagination and acknowledged as a fantasy classic in the making.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, 30 Oct 2004
This review is from: The Healthy Dead (Paperback)
The Healthy Dead has a great premise.
The town of Quaint has an excessively benevolent ruler. All things virtuous (honesty, cleanliness, dietary fibre) are deemed lawful and desirable while 'bad' things (lust, alcohol, smoking, crying babies) are against the law.
The king is literally killing the folk with love. Enter the necromancers.
It's funny and farcial, but it makes good points which are particularly relevant when considering how much the government interferes in the lives of private individuals. There are great philosophical points made here.
This was my first Erikson book and the first few pages were difficult to get into, but it makes up for it in snappy dialogue and good plotting.
Some of the humour seemed forced, and that prevented this from being a 5 in my humble opinion, but it's great reading.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Erikson notches the comedy string to his bow, 9 Sep 2004
By Rob Matthews "Sev" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Healthy Dead (Paperback)
In the second of Erikson's "Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach" Novella's from P.S. Publishing, we are presented with a no-holds-barred fantasy-farce that outdoes Pratchett and Holt in the comedy stakes.
Until now Erikson has given us mere slices of his gift for comedic dialogue in his epic "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series, most recently between Tehol and Bugg in "Midnight Tides", however it appears that these Novella's are giving the author the opportunty to cut loose, for which I for one am very grateful.
The plot involves the two Necromancer's being hired to get rid of the current King of "Quaint" for the crime of trying to instigate healthy reforms in his citizens, and they go about it by doing what they do best - Necromancy !! - with hilarious results.
If you can find a copy of this book, only 500 have been produced, then snap it up immediately.
As an in-between snack between "Midnight Tides" and "Bonehunters" this probably won't fill you up but you'll devour it anyway - Superb stuff - when's the next one due ?
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, 18 Jun 2006
Steven Erikson is the first fantasy writer that, after six installments, seems to be able to escape the pitfall into which numerous others (i.e. and foremost Robert Jordan) have fallen. This is probably due to the fact that he knows where his story is leading and that he does not write anything that substracts from the plot and from the prose needed to unfurl his so intricately woven world, which by the way is one of the most epic and large-scaled fantasy worlds up-to-date, barring perhaps Tolkien's Middle-Earth.
The Bonehunters, now , is a perfect example of two of the best traits Erikson, as a writer, has in store for us. Namely dialogue and convergence. The dialogue is not only very natural it's also extremely witty and an excellent way to transfer meaning. Sarcasm, irony, wit, indeed every feeling ever conveyed, it's all in the dialogue. As for convergence, Erikson is a master of it; within each novel but what's more important, and what becomes especially clear in The Bonehunters, within the overall arc of the entire series. It's not for nothing that part 10 is called The Crippled God!
So is there nothing to remark upon? Well, yes there is, but that particular complaint might cease to exist when the entire series has come to an end and things that now seem to have the aura of a Deus Ex Machina might then be entirely self-explanatory (although the term 'self-explanatory' does not really befit the Malazan Book of the Fallen).
So from me nothing but praise for The Bonehunters and as we are returning to the continent of Lether in the next installment, I'll say "Roll on Reaper's Gale!"
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..if you dont then this volume wont make any sense at all.

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This is a very catastrophic book. Read more
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Easily the best of the series to date - can't wait for the next one.
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This is the first book in the series, which gathers all the previous plots together and starts the progression towards the climactic end to the series. Read more
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What places Erikson at the forefront of the fantasy genre to date, in my opinion, is not just the sheer scale of what he achieves in the most complex plot and character writing I... Read more
Published on 11 April 2006 by M. E. Parker

5.0 out of 5 stars Retains the throne quite easily
If you're interested in book 6 of this series, then you're obviously familiar with the Malazan Book of the Fallen and there's not much more I can say to praise the brilliance that... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars I'm sorry Mr Erikson, 3 stars is all you get...
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