De página wiki de Steven Erikson :
During a 2008 question and answer session in Seattle, Washington, Erikson stated he had signed a deal to write two more trilogies and six novellas; Erikson planned to use the novellas to continue the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach storyline while one of the trilogies would be a prequel to the main series, detailing the history of Anomander Rake and Mother Dark.
De uma entrevista no The Void
Q:Is it correct that your next project is a prequel trilogy about Anomander Rake? What’s the plan? And will there be further spin-off series? You’ve written away from the series. Do you envisage ever ending it permanently?
A:It took me a month to think about
writing after completing The Crippled
God. That’s the longest break I’ve had
since I first started writing
full-time. It was vaguely alarming. In
thinking about it and in writing it,
The Malazan Book of the Fallen
consumed more than twenty years of my
life, day after day, night after
night. And suddenly… nothing. I felt
(and still feel) I could drop dead
tomorrow, and apart from some regret
over those who would be saddened at my
passing, I’d be pretty fine with that.
I did what I wanted to do, said what I
wanted and needed to say, completed my
modest salute to Homer and The Iliad,
and all that.
Eventually, things started stirring
again (keep your thoughts out of my
trousers!), and I started thinking
about another modest salute, this time
to The Bard himself, and from that
impetus some notes started taking
shape, and the new trilogy was
underway.
Obviously, I won’t give much away,
only to say that it’s tighter, not
quite so sprawling, not so wide-angled
in focus, and that structurally it’s
looking far more… traditional. Who’da
thunk, eh?