The Bonehunters

Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson is the author of the landmark, multi-volume epic fantasy, ''The Malazan Book of the Fallen'', which has been hailed ''a masterwork of the imagination''. The first novel in this astonishing ten-book series, Gardens of the Moon , was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. He has also written a number of novellas set in the same world. Forge of Darkness begins the Kharkanas Trilogy - a series which takes readers back to the origins of the Malazan world - and Fall of Light continues this epic tale. A lifelong science fiction reader, he has also written fiction affectionately parodying a long-running SF TV series and, most recently, a novel of first contact, Rejoice! Steven Erikson lives in Victoria, Canada.>

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Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson is the bestselling author of the genre-defining The Malazan Book of the Fallen, a multi-volume fantasy that's been hailed 'a masterwork of the imagination' and one of the top ten fantasy series of all time. The first novel in the sequence, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award. He has written several novellas set in the same world. Forge of Darkness was the first Kharkanas novel, taking readers back to the origins of what would become the Malazan Empire; Fall of Light continued this momentous tale.
A lifelong science fiction reader, he's written a trilogy that affectionately parodies a long-running television series as well as Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart, a story of first contact.
Set in the world of the Malazan Empire, ten years after the events recounted in The Crippled God, The God is Not Willing heralded the start of a thrilling new series - The Tales of Witness - continued in No Life Forsaken. Legacies of Betrayal is the third novel in this epic adventure.

Steven Erikson lives in Victoria, Canada. To find out more, look for him on Facebook: Steven Erikson - Author

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'This masterwork of the imagination may be the high watermark of epic fantasy' GLEN COOK

Here begins the brutal but compelling sixth chapter in Steven Erikson's masterly epic fantasy, The Malazan Book of the Fallen . . .

. . . the Seven Cities rebellion has been crushed.

One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan 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.

It is a place of foreboding; its smell is of death.

Yet this is but a sideshow. 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. But whatever each god decides, the rules have changed - irrevocably, terrifyingly.

It seems the gods are disinclined to be kind and the first blood to be drawn will be in the mortal world . . .

'It's not just the vast imaginative sweep but the quality of prose that lifts this Malazan sequence . . . our author makes you work hard . . . it's well worth it' SFX

'The most significant work of epic fantasy since Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'
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The Seven Cities Rebellion is over, Sha'ik is dead, but a last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan 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...

But 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, sides must be chosen but whatever each god decides, the rules have changed - and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world: a world in which a host of characters, familiar and new, search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone.

But gods are disinclined to be kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And the prize? Nothing less than existence itself...