Night of Knives
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| Author | Ian Cameron Esslemont |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Steve Stone |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Malazan Book of the Fallen |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | PS Publishing (UK) & Bantam (UK & Canada, forthcoming) |
| Released | 1 September 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 280 p. (PS Publishing edition), 304 p. (Bantam edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-904619-19-3 (UK paperback edition) |
| Followed by | Return of the Crimson Guard (forthcoming) |
Night of Knives is the first novel by Canadian author Ian Cameron Esslemont. 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 was first published in the United Kingdom by PS Publishing in September 2004 as a limited hardcover. A paperback edition followed in May 2006. To date, the book has not had an official US publication. Bantam, who publish Steven Erikson's Malazan novels, will be publishing Night of Knives in hardcover on 7 May 2007
Night of Knives is the first of five planned novels by Esslemont to take place in the Malazan world. It will be followed by Return of the Crimson Guard in 2007.
The novel is set in the 24 hours when the Emperor of the Malazan Empire is murdered. Chronologically, it takes place after the prologue to Erikson's Gardens of the Moon but before the main body of the novel. Several characters and locations which appear in Night of Knives also appear in Erikson's The Bonehunters.
| The Malazan Book of the Fallen |
| Gardens of the Moon | Deadhouse Gates | Memories of Ice | House of Chains | Midnight Tides | The Bonehunters | Reaper's Gale | Toll the Hounds | Dust of Dreams | The Crippled God | Blood Follows | The Healthy Dead |The Lees of Laughter's End |
| Related Novels |
| Night of Knives | Return of the Crimson Guard |
| Related Pages |
| The Malazan Empire |
