Man I can't get enough of the Malazan world and the next book in line to satisfy my hunger just got a bit more real. Posted at the MalazanEmpire forum is the prologue for
Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont (
follow the link). Since Adam at The Wertzone asked if the cover could be posted with the copyrights, I couldn't help myself, here it is. Still in the ship theme... not sure why, but I like it.

Cover art is a work in progress, copyright Transworld/Bantam UK,
reproduced with permission of Malazanempire.
For those of you looking for the release date, here's the note from the publisher about the prologue and the publication date :
As promised, attached are an early glimpse of our cover-in-progress for Stonewielder PLUS the first few pages (13 in all I think) of Cam’s new novel. As always, I’d stress that these are uncorrected, might well change and not-to-be reproduced without permission etc. All being well, Stonewielder: A Novel of the Malazan Empire by Ian C. Esslemont with be published by Bantam Press hardcover on 25th November 2010.
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Aside from Esslemont's work, Tor.com came up with two goodies for the Malazan fans or future readers. First, as they are doing every week with the Wheel of Time re-read, they will host
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen which started yesterday (
follow the link). Every post will be commented by Bill Capossere and Amanda Rutter (from
Floor to Ceiling books). If you still haven't tried some Malazan books, this could be a good opportunity to take a look at
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.
Secondly, in collaboration with Malazanempire.com, Tor.com announced that a beautiful wallpaper of Michael Komarck work depicting Anomander Rake is available on the forum (
follow the link) in various sizes. Quite splendid for those who are not the lucky owners of the Subterranean Press edition of
The Garden of the Moon illustrated by Komarck.
3 comments:
Thanks for posting that last link (along with the others), crap, those are cool.
Wow, great! I love the Malazan world! Thanks for the links, as well :)
Cool you say? I had the image as a wallpaper for a while but not in a quality as good as this.