Steven Erikson Books in Order

Set in the wake of a failed rebellion in Seven Cities, No Life Forsaken follows exhausted Malazan marines in G’danisban facing a resurgent cult of the Apocalypse, a suspicious new Adjunct and a newly awakened goddess whose choices may upend imperial politics.

Years after Karsa Orlong ravaged the lakeside town of Silver Lake, a Malazan marine company marches north to confront stirring Teblor tribes. As a new warleader rallies the mountains, old atrocities and new gods drag soldiers and villagers toward another looming catastrophe.

A nine-year-old boy sits down to write about a summer visit to his grandmother and instead spins a wild, tall tale. Fishin’ with Grandma Matchie becomes a playful, slightly surreal story about family, storytelling and the power of a child’s imagination.

With his crew somehow still alive, Captain Sawback chases a mysterious cosmic signal known as the Spark, stumbling into cults, conspiracies and stranger bureaucrats. The Search for Spark keeps the Willful Child series’ mix of parody, crude humour and surprisingly sharp satire.

When exclusion zones appear across Earth and violence suddenly stops working, abducted science-fiction writer Samantha August is told by an alien-run AI that humanity is under Intervention. Rejoice uses her arguments and the global fallout to ask what real change might cost our species.

Still at the helm of the absurdly over-armed Willful Child, Captain Hadrian Sawback now faces a vengeful former ship AI, hostile admirals and his own terrible impulses. Wrath of Betty doubles down on frantic set pieces and gleeful send-ups of space-opera clichés.

Newly enthroned in the kingdom of Farrog, King Bauchelain, Grand Bishop Korbal Broach and exhausted servant Emancipor Reese face an irate embassy from Nightmaria, imprisoned artists plotting revenge and a runaway god. Expect political farce, demons and plenty of very wrong magic.

Fall of Light continues the Kharkanas story as Mother Dark’s followers slide toward open civil war and the Jaghut declare war on Death itself. The novel deepens the tragedy of the Tiste while widening the conflict that will echo through the later Malazan books.

Captain Hadrian Sawback of the starship Willful Child blusters his way through first contact disasters, temporal tangles and bar fights, convinced he’s the universe’s greatest hero. This riotous spoof turns classic space-opera missions into chaotic, joke-filled misadventures.

Shipwrecked near the miserable coastal settlement of Spendrugle, Bauchelain, Korbal Broach and Emancipor tangle with a petty tyrant, resentful townsfolk and something ancient stirring beneath the cliffs. The Wurms of Blearmouth blends slapstick, sorcery and very grim local politics.

This volume collects three novellas—The Devil Delivered, Revolvo, and Fishin’ with Grandma Matchie. Together they move from a devastated Lakota homeland to a viciously satirical Canadian arts scene and a wild, tall tale of a boy’s unforgettable summer with his grandmother.

In Kurald Galain, realm of Mother Dark, tensions between nobles, soldiers and reformers edge toward civil war. Forge of Darkness looks back long before Malazan, tracing Anomander Rake, Draconus and others as seemingly small choices begin to fracture the Tiste into warring factions.

Picking up directly from Dust of Dreams, The Crippled God follows Tavore’s exhausted army to the shattered continent of Kolanse and a last confrontation with fanatical judges and a chained deity. The series closes in a storm of sacrifice, unexpected grace and hard-won compassion.

Adjunct Tavore leads the Bonehunters east out of Lether into a desolate wasteland, marching toward an enemy no one can clearly name. Dust of Dreams gathers disparate armies, ghosts and elder races into position for the two-part climax of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

A band of travellers crosses a desolate landscape, guarded by Bauchelain and Korbal Broach and led by rival storytellers who know only one of them will be allowed to live. Crack’d Pot Trail becomes a viciously funny tale about art, ego and the price of an audience.

Back in Darujhistan and Black Coral, retired soldiers, assassins and gods all feel the pull of unfinished business. Told partly through Kruppe’s wandering voice, Toll the Hounds follows converging plots around Anomander Rake’s legacy and the cost of carrying ancient burdens.

In this standalone edition of Revolvo, a cast of desperate creatives and career bureaucrats collide in a fictitious Canadian city where secret grant systems and petty rivalries rule. Erikson turns the art world into a compact, darkly comic fable about envy, access and failure.

Trapped aboard a doomed merchant ship sailing through the sinister waters of Laughter’s End, Bauchelain, Korbal Broach and Emancipor Reese endure mutiny, monsters and increasingly deranged magic. This claustrophobic voyage pushes their particular brand of mayhem to absurd extremes.

In the conquered empire of Lether, the mad emperor Rhulad Sengar faces a procession of champions who come to end his reign. As the Bonehunters close in and slaves, gods and rebels converge on the capital, Reaper’s Gale explodes long-simmering grudges from earlier books.

The Fourteenth Army survives a catastrophic siege and earns the name Bonehunters, only to be hurled back into a world-spanning game of gods and empires. Plague, prophecy and political purges push Tavore’s soldiers toward a choice that could shatter Malazan loyalty forever.

Set in a near-future Great Plains scarred by an enormous ozone hole, The Devil Delivered follows a lone anthropologist roaming Lakota lands while his recordings reveal how thoroughly human greed has poisoned the planet—and what might rise from the ruins.

In the city of Quaint, civic leaders enforce health and goodness with murderous zeal. Hired to solve a “problem,” Bauchelain, Korbal Broach and their weary manservant Emancipor soon find that restoring balance may require bringing the whole virtuous experiment crashing down.

Far from the Malazan Empire, the seafaring Tiste Edur and the capitalist kingdom of Lether teeter on the brink of war. As a cursed emperor rises and Tehol Beddict quietly plots economic collapse, ancient powers stir beneath a city built on debt and denial.

A Teblor warrior named Karsa Orlong storms out of the mountains, setting in motion a crusade against civilisation itself. Years later, Adjunct Tavore’s raw Fourteenth Army must cross the same desert to crush the Whirlwind rebellion and face the consequences of the Chain of Dogs.

In grim Lamentable Moll, failed caravan guard Emancipor Reese keeps losing jobs in unbelievable accidents. When a string of murders terrifies the city, his search for work leads him straight to two unsettling employers: the sorcerer Bauchelain and his partner Korbal Broach.

Allied Malazan forces and the Tiste Andii march to confront the fanatical Pannion Domin, even as a besieged holy city drowns in madness and cannibal armies. Memories of Ice weaves pitched battles with gut-wrenching acts of loyalty, mercy and betrayal.

On the desert continent of Seven Cities, a prophesied uprising erupts against Malazan rule. As a legendary warleader marches tens of thousands of refugees across hostile country, assassins, exiles and ancient powers are swept into the brutal legend of the Chain of Dogs.

The Malazan Empire turns its armies on the last Free City of Darujhistan, drawing in battered commandos, scheming mages, a floating fortress of dark sorcerers and meddling gods. Gardens of the Moon launches the vast, war-torn Malazan saga.

In the small Canadian town of Middlecross in the early 1970s, twelve-year-old Owen Brand and his friends discover a body in the river. Over one year of changing seasons, the mystery exposes family secrets, class tensions and the painful steps from childhood into adulthood.

Revolvo skewers a fictional Canadian arts scene where grants, juries and insider politics matter more than audiences. Through absurd episodes and monstrously self-important artists, Erikson turns cultural bureaucracy into a sharp, very local piece of social satire.

This joint volume pairs Steven Erikson’s novella Stolen Voices with Mitchell Parry’s Vacant Rooms. Erikson’s contribution follows a troubled painter over one intense stretch of time, tracing how ambition, addiction and the art world’s demands twist into a quiet nightmare.

Ruin of Feathers collects linked stories about an archaeologist working in Central America, blending fieldwork, local politics and personal loss. As digs in the jungle uncover buried histories, the narrator confronts his own fraying sense of purpose and responsibility.