If you’re look for a door-stopping epic fantasy series to entertain you from now until the end of time, you can’t go wrong with Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen, a sprawling tale about a period of turmoil for a great empire that includes epic battles waged between gods, sorcerers, ancient monsters, magical creatures, plains tribes, and more.
And once you’re through with the main series, there are all the offshoots. Erikson has also written the The Kharkanas Trilogy, a prequel series. He’s also started in on a new series called The Witness Trilogy, which has a book due out in 2021. There’s also Novels of the Malazan Empire, written by Ian Cameron Esslemont. Esslemont and Erikson created the world of Malazan decades ago as a backdrop for a roleplaying campaign, you see, and look what it’s wrought.
Anyway, today, we’re talking about the Path to Ascendancy series, another prequel series, but this one written by Esslemont. Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House, have confirmed that the next book in this series, The Jhistal, is due out in November of this year. You can preorder it now, if you like.
The Path to Ascendancy series follows the early adventures of the assassin Dorin and the mage Wu, known in Book of the Fallen as Dancer and Kellanved respectively. It follows their rise to power, or their path to ascendancy, if you wanna use SAT words.
The world of Malazan is vast and complicated. Even at a time when everyone seems eager to snag up fantasy properties and turn them into TV shows (or movies, if you’re desperate), this would be a tricky one to adapt. Happily, the books are going strong and show no signs of stopping.
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