The eagerly anticipated Malazan novel by Ian Cameron Esslemont focusing on the mysterious and forbidden continent of Assail will be published next summer, but here's the blurb found in the Transworld 2014 catalogue:
Tens of thousands of years of ice is melting, and the land of Assail, long a byword for menace and inaccessibility, is at last yielding its secrets. Tales of gold discovered in the region’s north circulate in every waterfront dive and sailor’s tavern and now countless adventurers and fortune-seekers have set sail in search of riches. All these adventurers have to guide them are legends and garbled tales of the dangers that lie in wait - hostile coasts, fields of ice, impassable barriers and strange, terrifying creatures. But all accounts concur that the people of the north meet all trespassers with the sword. And beyond are rumoured to lurk Elder monsters out of history’s very beginnings.
Into this turmoil ventures the mercenary company, the Crimson Guard. Not drawn by contract, but by the promise of answers: answers that Shimmer, second in command, feels should not be sought. Also heading north, as part of an uneasy alliance of Malazan fortune-hunters and Letherii soldiery, comes the bard Fisher kel Tath. With him is a Tiste Andii who was found washed ashore and cannot remember his past and yet commands far more power than he really should. It is also rumoured that a warrior, bearer of a sword that slays gods and who once fought for the Malazans, is also journeying that way. But far to the south, a woman patiently guards the shore. She awaits both allies and enemies. She is Silverfox, newly incarnate Summoner of the undying army of the T’lan Imass, and she will do anything to stop the renewal of an ages-old crusade that could lay waste to the entire continent and beyond. Casting light on mysteries spanning the Malazan empire, and offering a glimpse of the storied and epic history that shaped it, Assail brings the epic story of the Empire of Malaz to a thrilling close.
4 commentaires:
When are you going to review those indie books?
Still waiting for the author to send me the book. . . Doesn't look good. . .
It's a shame all these good story lines are being handled by ICE. He's wouldn't even be publishable without SE's groundwork. Fuck Steven Erikson, too, for giving us a shitty climax and leaving some of the most pressing questions to be tidied up by a lame, second-rate writer with remarkably uninteresting prose and no ear for dialogue. Also, I give absolutely zero shits for the Kharkansas trilogy. Never cared that much for the Tiste mythology, and certainly wasn't clamoring for more details. I'm not going to read another one of those long-winded, emo gasbag books. So yeah, basically, Malazan books can go jump in a dumpster fire.
I thought TCG was the best book of the series. Agree that Esslemont has to seriously start explaining stuff in the last book though.
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