Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson

Steve Rune Lundin (born October 7, 1959), known by his pseudonym Steven Erikson, is a Canadian novelist who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist. He is best known for his ten-volume spanning epic fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen, which began with the publication of Gardens of the Moon (1999) and was completed with the publication of The Crippled God (2011). By 2012 over 1 million copies of the series had been sold worldwide, and over 3 million copies by 2018. SF Site has called the series "the most significant work of epic fantasy since Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," and Fantasy Book Review described it as "the best fantasy series of recent times." Fellow author Glen Cook has called the series a masterwork, while Stephen R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Erikson has received more than 918,293 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Steven Erikson is the 4,088th most popular writer (up from 4,275th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Canada (up from 315th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Canadian Writer.