This episode contains spoilers for the first 10 chapters of Gardens of the Moon, first volume in The Malazan Book of the Fallen. While there are references and teases to future events, this assumes no knowledge of anything beyond the first half of that book.
A giant floating mountain hovering over a grand city. A young fisher girl possessed by the Patron of Assassins. A large stoic man who wears a six-and-a-half-foot-long sword strapped to his back. A psychotic sorcerer in the body of a wooden puppet. Gods called the twins of Chance. Devastated survivors of a once-legendary military unit. An undead skeleton with the power to corrupt magic pathways around him. Seven Hounds who serve the God of Shadow. And a young captain who wants to be a hero, learning what the world is really like.
These are just some of the many players in Gardens of the Moon, the first in Steven Erikson’s epic fantasy series The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Hot off their journey through the Cosmere, Matt (who’s read Malazan before) and Chris (who hasn’t) started their newest project: to read all of the books in this massive sprawling fantasy series. They unpack all the developments, parse through the events of the first half of this dense tome, and even find time to talk about A Song of Ice & Fire and the films of Quentin Tarantino.
Join along as we read one of the greatest fantasy series of all time!
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