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Message: <blockquote data-quote="neg" data-source="post: 1414878" data-attributes="member: 4431">Steven EriksonGot to agree with barsoomcore about Steven Erikson.  He is a Canadian who has published 5 novels in Britain (part of a 10 book series!) and has a rabid following over there.Tor books, the publisher I work for, has bought U.S. rights to the entire series and will publish the first book in the series in early June called "Gardens of the Moon".  I finished the first book and I have read the british edition of the second book and this guy is absolutely AMAZING!  He is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, which is a grueling program that few writers enter and fewer survive it would seem.  If Erikson was not writing Fantasy, he could write literary fiction and hold his own very well.What I love about Erikson is his vast world and his bit by bit approach of revealing it.  Further, he cares little for tags of good and evil, he leaves it for the reader to decide that.  And as such you often get to like a few favorite characters throughout his books.  More fascinating is the way Erikson will casually KILL HIS CHARACTERS.  Yep, that is right, he kills characters, even important ones, and lots of them.  The body count in Gardens of the Moon was very high.Lastly, I have never had a fantasy writer elicit so much emotion from me as a reader.  Most of what one reads in the genre doesn't grab you but is a nice way of escaping for awhile.  Erikson pulls things from his audience.  He can at turns be funny, dark, he can awe, shock, and repulse.  He commands and directs readers emotions with incredilble ease.I personally feel that Steven Erikson will be a big name in a few years.  I think he has the potential to be another Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan terms of sales.  However, I think he is a much better author than either of those two or George R.R. Martin.  I predict that everyone will be reading him.  I hope people check him out when he publishes in early June.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765310015/qid=1078927931/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-8899489-9422432?v=glance&s=books" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765310015/qid=1078927931/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-8899489-9422432?v=glance&s=books</a>Just, buy the book at a Media Play (at discount when published) or at your friendly neighboorhood independent bookstore, preferrably in the Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Nebraska area!  He, to me, is what is fresh in fantasy.-neg</blockquote>

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