Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson (2016)

Steven Erikson (born October 7, 1959 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian writer. Erikson has also published some books under his real name, Steve Rune Lundin .

Life

Erikson grew up in Winnipeg , worked as an anthropologist and archaeologist in London for a long time and now lives with his family in Cornwall.

His best-known works are the books of the monumental and successful fantasy epic The Game of the Gods (original title of the series: A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen ). The author spent six years preparing the first book in the series, The Gardens of the Moon . Here a complex world develops with its own magic , its own peoples and its own very old mythology . In 2020 the seventeenth German volume entitled Die Schwingen der Dunkelheit was published.

Works

Individual works

• This River Awakens (1998) (as Steve Rune Lundin) ISBN 0-340-69637-0
• Fishin 'with Grandma Matchie, 2004
• The Devil Delivered, 2004
• Revolvo, 2008
• This River Awakens, 2012
• Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart . Promontory Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-77374-012-6 .
  • Rejoice: the final decision , Piper, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-70558-5 , translator Andreas Decker

The game of the gods

Das Spiel der Götter (Orig .: The Malazan Book of the Fallen ) is the German title of a series of the genre High Fantasy in originally ten volumes. With the exception of the first volume Gardens of the Moon , all books were published in two parts in the German edition.

• Vol. 1: The Gardens of the Moon (2012). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Gardens of the Moon , 1999; German first edition 2000). ISBN 978-3-442-26909-9
• Vol. 2: The Empire of the Seven Cities (2013). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Deadhouse Gates , Part 1, 2000; German first edition 2001). ISBN 978-3-442-26965-5
• Vol. 3: Under the Spell of the Desert (2014). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Deadhouse Gates , Part 2, 2001; German first edition 2001). ISBN 978-3-442-26968-6
• Vol. 4: The icy time (2003). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Memories of Ice , Part 1, 2002). ISBN 978-3-442-24997-8
• Vol. 5: The Day of the Seer (2003). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Memories of Ice , Part 2, 2002). ISBN 978-3-442-24998-5
• Vol. 6: The Sisters' War (2004). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: House of Chains , Part 1, 2002). ISBN 978-3-442-24271-9
• Vol. 7: The House of Chains (2004). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: House of Chains , Part 2, 2002). ISBN 978-3-442-24292-4
• Vol. 8: Children of the Shadow (2005). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Midnight Tides , Part 1, 2004). ISBN 978-3-442-24298-6
• Vol. 9: Tides of the Night (2006). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Midnight Tides , Part 2, 2004). ISBN 978-3-442-24403-4
• Vol. 10: The Fires of Rebellion (2007). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: The Bonehunters , Part 1, 2006). ISBN 978-3-442-24469-0
• Vol. 11: The Bone Hunters (2008). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: The Bonehunters , Part 2, 2006). ISBN 978-3-442-24499-7
• Vol. 12: The golden ruler (2009). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Reaper's Gale , Part 1, 2007). ISBN 978-3-442-26556-5
• Vol. 13: In the Storm of Perdition (2010). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Reaper's Gale , Part 2, 2007). ISBN 978-3-442-26557-2
• Vol. 14: The City of Blue Fire (2012). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Toll the Hounds , Part 1, 2008). ISBN 978-3-442-26558-9
• Vol. 15: Death of a God (2017). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Toll the Hounds , Part 2, 2008). ISBN 978-3-7341-6110-0
• Vol. 16: The Flight of the Children (2018). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Dust of Dreams, Part 1, 2009). ISBN 978-3734161131
• Vol. 17: The Wings of Darkness (2020). Translated by Tim Straetmann. Munich: Blanvalet (Orig .: Dust of Dreams, Part 2, 2009). ISBN 978-3734161148
• (Orig .: The Crippled God , 2011). ISBN 978-0-553-81318-0

Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

• Blood Follows , 2002
• The Healthy Dead , 2004
• Bauchelain and Korbal Broach: The Collected Stories Volume One , 2007
• The Lees of Laughter's End , 2007
• Crack'd Pot Trail , 2009
• The Wurms of Blearmouth , 2014

Kharkana's trilogy

• Forge of Darkness , 2012
• Fall of Light , 2016

Story collections

• A Ruin of Feathers (1991) (as Steve Rune Lundin) ISBN 0-920661-23-8
• Revolvo & Other Canadian Tales (1998) (as Steve Rune Lundin) ISBN 0-920-66158-0
• The Devil Delivered and Other Tales, 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Steven Erikson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Steven Erikson in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Steven Erikson in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Steven Erikson at Open Library
• Malazan Wiki encyclopedia of the works of Steven Erikson