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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.

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