He has also confirmed that rough sketches of such maps have already been created. According to Erikson, a world map may appear in the planned Encyclopaedia Malazica. No unified map of the entire planet has been published to date, although fans have frequently attempted to create one. Malazan world is a globe and appears to be similar in size to Earth, and may be notably larger. The name has gained traction among fans as an affectionate and informal term for the planet. Malazan world has no official unified name, although Steven Erikson has jokingly called it Wu. Donaldson ( The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) hailing it as a masterwork of the imagination, and comparing Erikson to the likes of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The series has received widespread critical acclaim, with reviewers praising the epic scope, plot complexity and characterizations, and fellow authors such as Glen Cook ( The Black Company) and Stephen R. 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 sixteen-book project and Esslemont's novels are considered to be as canonical and integral to the series' mythos as Erikson's own. In 2005, Esslemont began publishing his own series of six novels set in the same world, beginning with Night of Knives. The Malazan world was co-created by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont in the early 1980s as a backdrop to their GURPS roleplaying campaign. Each of the first five novels is relatively self-contained, in that each resolves its respective primary conflict but many underlying characters and events are interwoven throughout the works of the series, binding it together.

His plotting presents a complicated series of events in the world upon which the Malazan Empire is located. Erikson's series is extremely complex with a wide scope, and presents the narratives of a large cast of characters spanning thousands of years across multiple continents. and Tor Books in the U.S., consists of ten volumes, beginning with Gardens of the Moon (1999) and concluding with The Crippled God (2011). The series, published by Bantam Books in the U.K. Malazan Book of the Fallen / m ə ˈ l æ z ə n/ is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the Canadian author Steven Erikson.

Erikson's gardens of the moon