Ian Cameron Esselmont Interview

[Rane Longfox]

An interview with the co-creator of Steven Erikson's massive Malazan world, and author of the newest malazan side-novel, "Night of Knives" has done an interview for malazan.com

Its very revealing about the entire series, and promises more books to come, and hopefully a mass market release of Night of Knives
(GRRM fans be warned, he doesn't mince his words)

http://malazan.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/2506041581/m/6411031401/r/2211061401#2211061401

 

[Jay]

Thanks for the link

Who are your favourite authors within the fantasy genre?

See above for the old favourites. For fantasy and related work I’d
currently add Iain M. Banks (love his stuff), Philip K. Dick, Neal
Stephenson, old Gene Wolfe (the Urth series), China Miéville, and
William Gibson. I would add here that I am familiar with G. R. R.
Martin’s Swords series, but I do not count it anywhere near a favourite
as I find his clinging to the clichés of medieval chivalry tiresome.

Anyone who enjoys Mieville, Wolfe, and Dick defintely has some good taste but concerning Martin I think more people will believe he read it if he actually knew the name of the series. What is he talking about? What is the "Sword" series? Seems just like a jab at the competition to me.

 

[Rane Longfox]

Its a good point. I had assumed he was talking about aSoIaF... I obviously didn't look closely enough.

(Oh, and apologies for my grammer in the first paragraph of my original post. I don't normally write like that)