Malazan Book of the Fallen · Book 1

Gardens of the Moon

by Steven Erikson

Published
1 April 1999
Pages
635
ISBN-13
9781469225692
Type
novel

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Cover of Gardens of the Moon

About this book

Gardens of the Moon opened Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen in April 1999, a 635-page debut that preceded Deadhouse Gates the following year.

Its place in Malazan Book of the Fallen

Gardens of the Moon is book 1 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It is followed by Deadhouse Gates. 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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