Malazan Book of the Fallen · Book 2

Deadhouse Gates

by Steven Erikson

Published
1 September 2000
Pages
619
ISBN-13
9781429926492
Type
novel

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Cover of Deadhouse Gates

About this book

Deadhouse Gates, published in September 2000 at 619 pages, is the second novel in Steven Erikson's ten-book main sequence, arriving roughly a year and a half after Gardens of the Moon and continuing the series' sprawling cast of point-of-view characters across the Malazan Empire's wars of conquest and godly intrigue.

Its place in Malazan Book of the Fallen

Deadhouse Gates is book 2 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It follows Gardens of the Moon. It is followed by Memories of Ice. See the full Malazan Book of the Fallen reading order.

The Malazan Empire has spent a century conquering a continent through sorcery, siege warfare and the ascension of its soldiers to godhood, and the empire's oldest, most battle-worn armies are starting to wonder whether the throne they fight for still deserves their loyalty. Steven Erikson opens Gardens of the Moon in the middle of an already-vast, already-old world, with no orientation and no apology, and asks readers to catch up — gods walk among mortals and scheme like politicians, ten-thousand-year-old empires…

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