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Old 28th December 2007, 12:00 AM   #22 (permalink)
Werthead
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Re: How are the novels connected?

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Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante View Post
Now i hear they wont appear again until the third book its annoying. I adore the world but i hope the 3-4 characters you guys said that were in GOTM and appears in DHG i hope are one of my favs. People like Kruppe,Ganoes Paran, Whiskeyjack ,Quick Ben, Kalam.

I dont mind the way he writes the series the order or whatever as long as i like the books.
Given this was a few weeks ago, presumably you've already found this out, but on the character front:

Of those characters only Kalam is in Deadhouse Gates. Quick Ben has a very quick cameo thanks to a magical conversation (we see the other side of the conversation in Memories of Ice, which is pretty clever). Fortunately, Quick Ben, Paran, Whiskeyjack and Kruppe are all back in Book 3, Memories of Ice. Unfortunately, we don't then seem some of them again for quite some time.

Now that I've read Reaper's Gale and some interesting info has been released about ICE's next book and Erikson's next two, I can revamp the chronological order of the series (again spoilerised):

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Prologue of Gardens of the Moon
Night of Knives (Ian Cameron Esslemont's first Malaz novel)
Blood Follows (short story)
The Lees of Laughters End (short story)
Midnight Tides
Book I of House of Chains
Gardens of the Moon
Deadhouse Gates/Memories of Ice (occur simultaneously)
The Healthy Dead (short story)
Books II-IV of House of Chains
The Bonehunters
Return of the Crimson Guard
Reaper's Gale
Toll the Hounds
Dust of Dreams
The Crippled God
Where ICE's third-to-fifth books fit in is unknown at the moment.
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