The sequence details the various struggles for power on a world dominated by the Malazan Empire.

The world Erikson creates in the first book of the Malazan series, is immense and immensely immersed in time.

Erikson's plotting presents a complicated series of events in the world upon which the Malazan Empire is located.

Heboric also finds charts suggesting the Tiste Edur originated from a landmass on their world unknown to the Malazan Empire.

Midnight Tides takes place on a continent, called Lether, located on the far side of the world to the Malazan Empire and unknown to it.

He is best known for his series Novels of the Malazan Empire, which is set in the same world as the Malazan Book of the Fallen epic fantasy series popularised by his friend and collaborator, Steven Erikson.

Esslemont is the co-creator of the Malazan world.

Esslemont and Erikson co-created the Malazan world in 1982 as a backdrop for role-playing games.

He expects to write up to three more novels set in the Malazan world.

It is set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume epic fantasy series by Esslemont's friend and colleague Steven Erikson.

Esslemont and Erikson co-created the Malazan world in the 1980s.

Night of Knives is the first of five planned novels by Esslemont to take place in the Malazan world.

* Kellanved – The self proclaimed Emperor and founder of the Malazan Empire, Kellanved was assassinated in a coup by Laseen.

This book was a prequel to the main Malazan sequence.

* Warren ( Malazan Book of the Fallen ), a kind of magic in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series of fantasy novels by Steven Erikson

* Dragnipur, a black, soul-devouring sword in the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson.

The story opens several years into a series of wars by the Malazan Empire to conquer the continent of Genabackis.

Darujhistan has evaded conquest by the Malazan Empire, for now, but may be in danger from this new threat.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen is an epic fantasy series written by Canadian author Steven Erikson, published in ten volumes beginning with the novel Gardens of the Moon, published in 1999.

The Malazan Empire is rocked by a cull of the nobility, many being sent to the mines of Otataral Island off the coast of the subcontinent of Seven Cities.

In the city of Unta, capital of the Malazan Empire, a cull of the nobility has been ordered by Empress Laseen to rip the heart out of what is seen as a growing corruption at the heart of the Empire.

The native tribes are preparing to overthrow the Malazan occupiers in an uprising known as the Whirlwind, which will be led by the seer Sha ' ik from her camp in the heart of the Holy Desert Raraku.

In the city of Hissar, the Malazan garrison and the encamped 7th Army are preparing to fend off the rebellion, and are joined by a large contingent of Wickans, skilled horse-warriors from Quon Tali.

Kalam sets out for Raraku, unaware he is being trailed by a Red Blade ( Malazan loyalists from Seven Cities ), Captain Lostara Yil, and her squad who have orders to kill Sha ' ik.

They reach the coast of the island and are rescued by Kulp, who has won the support of a group of Malazan marines: Gesler, Stormy and Truth.

Gardens of the Moon is the first of ten novels in Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Deadhouse Gates is the second novel in Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Memories of Ice is the third volume of Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

House of Chains is the fourth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen, and a direct sequel to the second volume in the series, Deadhouse Gates.

Midnight Tides is the fifth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

The Bonehunters is the sixth volume in Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Toll the Hounds is the eighth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Dust of Dreams is the ninth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

* The Four Founding Races, the Jaghut, Imass, K ' Chain Che ' Malle and Forkrul Assail, along with several Human ancestor-races such as the Imass, Thelomen Toblakai, Trell, Barghast, Moranth and Eres ' al, who all share a direct ancestry with humans through the Imass, themselves descended from the Eres ' al, along with several invading races such as Tiste Edur, Tiste Andii, Tiste Liosan and the Eleint from Ian Cameron Esslemont and Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen

Bantam, who publish Steven Erikson's Malazan novels, published Night of Knives in hardcover on 7 May 2007 and in mass-market paperback on 5 May 2008.

Although Esslemont's books are published under a different series title – Novels of the Malazan Empire – Esslemont and Erikson collaborated on the storyline for the entire fifteen-book project and Esslemont's novels are considered as canonical and integral to the series as Erikson's own.

From Tolkien to the modern day, authors in this genre tend to create their own worlds where they set multi-tiered narratives such as the Belgariad, Malloreon, Wheel of Time, Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Black Company, The Sword of Truth, A Song of Ice and Fire, and Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.

Memories of Ice focuses on the renegade Malazan 2nd Army and their new allies on Genabackis, and their battle with the Pannion Domin, a new power emerging from the south of the continent.

* In the Malazan Book of the Fallen, Adjunct Tavore Paran kills Sha ' ik, who is also her sister, Felisin.

The novel opens in the 96th year of the Malazan Empire, during the final year of the Emperor Kellanved.

The Malazan 2nd Army under High Fist Dujek has been besieging the city of Pale, one of only two Free Cities left in the Malazans ' path in Genabackis, for several years.

* Ganoes Paran – The new Captain of the Bridgeburners, only son of a powerful Malazan noble family, and aide to Adjunct Lorn.

* Laseen – Empress of the Malazan Empire.

* Dassem Ultor – The former First Sword of the Malazan Empire and former servant of Hood, the God of Death.

Coming to terms with this 523-page book is clearly going to take a while, though the seven-page glossary explaining the structure of Malazan civilization, the mores of the Barghasts, Darus, Gadrobis and Jaghuts, and the geography of Darujhistan will undoubtedly help.

Gardens of the Moon opens with a war scene and continues to follow the ebb and flow of war across the Malazan empire.

The Malazan series is often compared both to Glen Cook's The Black Company series ( to whom the seventh book is dedicated ) and George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.