Thursday, July 29th, 2010

About Steven Erikson

 

Steven Erikson is a pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and best-selling author. Erikson was born in Toronto, and now calls the U.K. home. He is an anthropologist and archaeologist by training (and still pursues work in these areas), as well as being a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and an accomplished painter.


His first fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon (1999), constitutes the first of ten projected volumes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. It was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award. In the late 1990s, Bantam UK bought Gardens of the Moon and requested that Erikson write additional books in the same series. Using the history of the world created by himself and Ian Cameron Esslemont as a guide, he mapped out the series of ten novels. His second novel, Deadhouse Gates, was voted one of the 10 best fantasy novels of the year' by SF Site.


The rights to the Malazan Book of the Fallen were sold for approximately £500,000, among the "largest fees ever paid for a fantasy series". SF Site has called the series "the most significant work of epic fantasy since Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," and Fantasy Book Review described it as "the best fantasy series of recent times." Erikson's books consistently appear on Top Ten and Best-Seller Lists.


His publication website is http://www.stevenerikson.com/.



Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part VIII: With Regret

Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part VII: Scraping Hard at the Veil

Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part VI: Death is the Dream

Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part V — Diabolical Deceptions

Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part IV – The Next Novel

Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part III: Once Bitten

Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part II: A Stake Driven Deep

Mongolia Adventures and Goat’s Head Soup: Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis