Steven Erikson was born Steve Rune Lundin in Toronto in 1959 and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He trained as an archaeologist and anthropologist — completing fieldwork on Indigenous sites in the Canadian Shield — before earning a graduate degree through the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He writes under a pen name adopted to avoid confusion with the American novelist Steve Erickson. The world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen has its origins not in a manuscript but in a tabletop roleplaying campaign....
Dust of Dreams
Dust of Dreams
Synopsis
The Bonehunters march again — this time toward the Wastelands, a continent-spanning scar from an ancient war that is not as dead as history believed. Dust of Dreams is the first half of a two-part conclusion to the Malazan Book of the Fallen, written concurrently with The Crippled God and not designed to be read in isolation. What it provides: the gathering of threads, the last moments of peace, the introduction of the K'Chain Nah'ruk, and a battle that ends on a cliffhanger of extraordinary violence. It is also the novel where the series fully reveals what the Bonehunters are fighting for — not the Empress, not empire, but something older and more fundamental about the worth of compassion.
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Genres
Characters
Adjunct Tavore ParanProtagonist
The Bonehunters' inscrutable commander, whose purpose is finally beginning to be understood by those she leads.
FiddlerProtagonist
The veteran sapper who carries the weight of the Bridgeburners' legacy into the Wastelands.
The ErrantAntagonist
An Elder God of the Letherii continent whose interference in mortal affairs drives part of the novel's divine subplot.
Lostara YilSupporting
Tavore's most loyal aide, whose own grief and devotion parallel the Adjunct's in ways neither woman names.
GeslerSupporting
Veteran soldier whose extraordinary history marks him as something more than mortal without his ever having asked to be.
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Edition
Dust of dreamsUnknown, 2010
1276 pages
Tor FantasyLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97807653488691st U.S. mass market ed.5 editions available
